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• 28 Sep 09
  

  nico flores

  journalismonline paidcontent newspaperidea

• 18 Jul 09
  

  Carlos Castilho

  paid content newspaper crisis suicide pact

• 28 Jun 09
  

  Michael Becker

  Dan Conover from Xark offers a long tirade, noting that the journalism crisis is really a crisis for the business owners who have run their companies into the ground, ignoring the way online content works.

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  • On the surface, paid content is the reasonable idea that people should have to pay for the professionally produced content they consume. Its core, however, is a post-rational demand that consumers abandon their habits of the past decade in favor of new behaviors intended to restore media companies to the profitability ordained to them by God Almighty.
  • Quality journalism is expensive, and to the extent that it provides a public good, we will find ways to fund it. But top-heavy, poorly run, arrogant-to-the-bitter-end media companies? This is their crisis, not our crisis, and it certainly isn't about journalism.
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  • • Will they buck up and go back out into the fray with fresh ideas and leadership? Or will they fold, casting bitter eulogies to their own imagined glories as they exit the stage?
    • America's journalism infrastructure – from corporate giants to non-profit foundations like the American Press Institute and the Newspaper Association of America – is funded by dying companies. So when you hear about efforts to save newspapers (and, by extension, journalism), understand that answers that don't return the possibility of double-digit profits and perpetual top-down control aren't even considered answers. They're not even considered.
• 06 Jun 09
  

  tony curzon price

  media

  • Consider InDenver Times: The online-only startup launched with a plan to fund its operations via 50,000 paid subscriptions. They got 3,000. That's 6 percent of their goal.
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  Marcel Weiss

  The issue is “paid content.” That's the generic term. I consider it a euphemism for an entire suite of frustrations and furies that have been boiling out of my former profession since its once-invincible business model began its final slide to the deep in 2008. On the surface, paid content is the reasonable idea that people should have to pay for the professionally produced content they consume. Its core, however, is a post-rational demand that consumers abandon their habits of the past decade in favor of new behaviors intended to restore media companies to the profitability ordained to them by God Almighty.

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  sandra fish

  newspapers future

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  Terry Jones

  newspaper suicide pact

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  Jorge Acosta

  newspapers business publishing journalism media

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