International Law

Baby Barista Bails From Times
Tim Kevan, author of BabyBarista, the fictitious and amusing “worm’s eye view of the English bar,” has withdrawn the column from The Times where it ran for years, because of that paper’s decision to put its content behind a paywall...

BabyBarista Moves to New Chambers
Last Fall, I wrote a book review praising Tim Kevan's novelization of his BabyBarista blog, BabyBarista and the Art of War. That novel has enjoyed widespread praise and considerable success and has paved the way for a second novel continuing BabyB's (mis)adventures...

Running the numbers on the NYT paywall
Apologies for being something of a one-trick pony today, but reading John Gapper's column on the NYT paywall makes me realize that a lot of people fail to appreciate exactly what's at stake here...

How the NYT should construct its paywall
Gabriel Sherman says that the NYT is going to be putting up an FT-style paywall:

The economics of the NYT paywall
Preston Austin has managed to squeeze the economics of a NYT-style paywall into one tweet, but it's compressed, so let me expand it into slightly more than 140 characters.

Paywall math, Guardian edition
There's been a lot of speculation on this blog about the economics of the NYT paywall. So let's stop speculating and look at what Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, has to say on the subject...