November 2, 2010

Christian Science Monitor’s Weekly Wins 60% More Paying Subscribers Than its Daily Newspaper Had

The stats behind this week’s Case Study of Christian Science Monitor’s turn-around are fascinating. So often in the online publishing industry we assume that higher frequency is better. We ramp up the content production volume, hoping that more and more pages, and continual changing homepage headlines are the way to go. But then I remember the time when my father, a reader with a busy life, pestered the circulation department of Wired Magazine, among others, with…

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How the Christian Science Monitor Killed its Daily Paper and Grew Circulation 60%

Since abandoning its daily print newspaper in 2009 for a free website with a premium weekly print magazine, The Christian Science Monitor has seen circulation rise 60% and web visits soar. Insider spoke with Sr. Director of Marketing Susan Hackney to learn how they developed the content model and got more than 90% of subscribers to accept the new product

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