April 10, 2020

illustration of the number five, representing the five subscription business topics for this column, Five-on-Friday

Five on Friday: Paywalls, the Apple Tax and Top Subscription Jobs

In this week’s edition of Five on Friday, Howard Saltz presents a new perspective on bringing down paywalls during the coronavirus crisis: we shouldn’t be taking down paywalls when the newspaper industry is in crisis too. Also this week, Apple lets some video apps escape the 30% “Apple Tax,” Spotify earns the streaming music industry’s […]

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MNG Guts Newspapers Across the Country with Layoffs and Furloughs

MediaNews Group (MNG), owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital, is gutting newsrooms again, reports News Matters. Though no official announcement was made by the company, newspapers from coast to coast have been impacted. In fact, News Matters said that it seems no MNG newspaper has been spared, including the Denver Post, the Boston Herald,

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