How to (ab?)use the Wall Street Journal’s first-click-free approach to Google News and Digg to get free access to the bits behind the paywall …

Local aggregator vs local paper: "NewZjunky has very little information about itself, but it appears to be a sort of anti-Times… a Drudge for Watertown, with links to public records, TV sites, and obits from every funeral home"

A local newspaper in upstate New York which still has a paywall is being vastly outperformed by a local news aggregator site with a tiny staff.

"Readership will get another boost starting Tuesday, when TheAtlantic.com will abolish the fire wall that has allowed only subscribers to the print magazine to see most of its articles online. It will make its archive accessible, too."

Political journalists in France are leaving newspapers to launch two new web sites because they are disillusioned with the state of French press. Both sites rely on citizen journalism, but one is ad-supported and free while the other is betting on paid c

Scott Karp: "…now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone, what [is] the real ROI of this registration wall is for the New York Times and others sites, many of them newspapers, that require registration."

Jaron Lanier: "To help writers and artists earn a living online, software engineers and Internet evangelists need to exercise the power they hold as designers. … We could design information systems so that people can pay for content."

"Pearson … the publisher of the Financial Times, said a Rupert Murdoch-controlled Dow Jones & Co Inc could be a threat in Europe but might provide a boost to the FT in the United States."

"A top business-side executive at Dow Jones & Co. said it is premature to assume that The Wall Street Journal Web site will definitely drop its paid subscription model, despite comments by Rupert Murdoch that the change is expected."

Rupert Murdoch: "We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having one million (subscribers), having at least 10 million-15 million in every corner of the earth,"

"News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch said today the group was continuing to consider making the online version of the Wall Street Journal free, once News Corp formally takes control of Dow Jones next month."

Richard Sambrook says BBC.com will launch later this month, and will be trialing an subscription model alongside the new ad-supported site.

Tim Harford: "Matthew Gentzkow, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently published research that suggests that there has been no expensive mistake. Both the subscription model then and the advertising model now were likely to have been reasonab

"Matthew Gentzkow, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently published research that suggests that there has been no expensive mistake. Both the subscription model then, and the advertising model now, were likely to have been reasonable choices.