Comments on: Will You Pay for Your News? The New York Times Is Counting on It

By: Beyond The Hype: Can Technology Save The Day?

Beyond The Hype: Can Technology Save The Day? — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:32:29 +0000

[...] past weekend I wrote a post about the New York Times’ plan to start charging its readers. Because online news sites have been providing free content for years now there isn’t a [...]

By: Elena

Elena — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:53:02 +0000

I completely agree Michael. It may be hard to get people to subscribe at first because publications like the Times are so vast with their topics and information. It is much easier to monetize a niche market (such as a car magazine or cooking site) where true aficionados will pay up in order to get information that is specialized to their interests. I believe that the way we consume media is changing, however I don’t think that we are anywhere near completely relying on social networking sites or microblogging as our main news source.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:08:45 +0000

I agree that as a society we need to support high quality investigative journalism. It is expensive, and unfortunately, a dying breed. If that means regular readers have to pay a fee for online reading (print subscribers will still get online content for free), then so be it – at least in the U.S..