Paid content strategies for news websites: An empirical study of british newspapers’ online business models

Journalism Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 208-226

  Herbert, Jack ^a   Thurman, Neil ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business models; Cannibalisation; Content charging; Newspapers; Online journalism; Subscription

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010452938     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512780701275523     Document Type: Article

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