Texas Trifles (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Saul Friedman has a terrific post today over at Time Goes By (Ronni Bennett's blog). Very much worth the time it takes to read, hie thee quickly for an invigorating and intelligent discussion. Here's Ronni's quick bio on Saul: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman (bio) writes the twice-monthly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
So count Saul Friedman a contrarian twice over. Mr. Friedman, who had written a column for Newsday since 1996, quit last week over the paper's decision to require some readers to pay for access to its Web site. More on Newspapers
Akkam's Razor (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Saul Friedman, an 80-year old print veteran at Newsday, hops over the paywall (via BoingBoing): Customers of Cablevision, the cable and Internet provider that owns Newsday, and people who subscribe to Newsday in print will still be able to browse Newsday.com unfettered. But Newsday recently announced that everyone else will have to pay $5 a week [...]
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
SteveOuting.com | "On the Media" "If the company is determined to lock down its news content, the least it could do is offer more options for viewing specific content," writes Steve Outing . He wanted to watch a video on the Newsday website, but could only do that by subscribing. || Saul Friedman talks about quitting Newsday because of its paywall, and Steve Brill...
On The Media (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Accessing full Newsday articles online costs $5 per week if you don't subscribe to the print edition or Optimum Online. When Newsday columnist Saul Friedman found out he quit . After 13 years of writing for the paper, Friedman says many of his readers will no longer be able to read his column and so he'd rather blog elsewhere .
Click World News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Saul Friedman, a long-standing Newsday columnist, has quit the paper over its decision to implement a paywall, pointing out that by charging $5/week for readers, they'll drastically cut his audience size (and, presumably, the present and future opportunities that having a large audience afford to a working writer). I doubt he'll be the last. Last month at the O'Reilly Tools of Change...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Saul Friedman, a long-standing Newsday columnist, has quit the paper over its decision to implement a paywall, pointing out that by charging $5/week for readers, they'll drastically cut his audience size (and, presumably, the present and future opportunities that having a large audience afford to a working writer). I doubt he'll be the last. Last month at the O'Reilly Tools of Change...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hugh Pickens writes "With news organizations struggling and newsroom jobs disappearing, each week brings new calls from writers and editors who believe their employers should save themselves by charging for Internet access. However, in an interesting turnabout, the NY Times reports that Saul Friedman, a journalist for more than 50 years and a columnist for Newsday since 1996, announced...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hugh Pickens writes "With news organizations struggling and newsroom jobs disappearing, each week brings new calls from writers and editors who believe their employers should save themselves by charging for Internet access. However, in an interesting turnabout, the NY Times reports that Saul Friedman, a journalist for more than 50 years and a columnist for Newsday since 1996, announced...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A Newsday columnist since 1996, Saul Friedman, left his position last week in protest over the paper's recent decision to make some of its website content only available to paying subscribers, the New York Times has reported. At a time...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... for some of its columnists to start to bailing. The NY Times is reporting that Newsday columnist Saul Friedman quit and did so while publishing an open letter on why paywalls are a bad idea , while also telling the NY Times that he knew his column was popular with people outside of Newsday's footprint, and he was upset that those people would not be able to read his column and that...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... extra cash from the publication it acquired last year that it can get. But not all writers agree: Saul Friedman , a columnist at Newsday for over a decade, quit the paper last week in protest of the publication's paywall, which went into effect last week. Friedman's column in the paper, " Gray Matters ," dealt with the topic of aging, ironically something that print...
SocraticGadfly (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A columnist for Long Island’s daily newspaper, Newsday, has quit. Why? The newspaper is putting up a paywall on his website . Great, not only are there freeloaders outside the newspaper office, they have aiders and abetters inside. Goodbye, Saul Friedman. Three other comments. One, don’t flatter yourself about how many people around the country read you. Two, if they actually...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
... in the country to take such a plunge. As a result of this announcement long time columnist Saul Friedman threw in the pen, so to speak, and walked. In an interview, Mr. Friedman said, “My column has been popular around the country, but now it was really going to be impossible for people outside Long Island to read it.” That includes him; living outside Washington,...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
With news organizations struggling and newsroom jobs disappearing, each week brings new calls from writers and editors who believe their employers should save themselves by charging for Internet access. However, in an interesting turnabout, the NY Times reports that Saul Friedman, a journalist for more than 50 years and a columnist for Newsday since 1996, announced last week he was quitting...
