Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact | Cold, hard realism (and a...
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Saved by 8 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-06-04
- Nicoflores on 2009-09-28 - Tags journalismonline , paidcontent , newspaperidea
- Ccastilho on 2009-07-18 - Tags paid , content , newspaper , crisis , suicide , pact
- Superjaberwocky on 2009-06-28 - Tags paid content , Dan Conover , xark , suicide pact , newspapers , business
- Tonycurzonprice on 2009-06-06 - Tags media
- Marcel on 2009-06-06 - Tags journalism , paidcontent
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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.
Highlighted by superjaberwocky
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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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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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?
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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.
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