The future of the news industry has been a hot topic for most of this year, with LiveWire contributors regularly posting on the battle between online and print (see http://www.vivavip.com/go/e26321 http://www.vivavip.com/go/e24652 and http://www.vivavip.com/go/e24414). In the past week, Londons Evening Standard newspaper decided to go free completely, thereby driving three ...
Thanks for a good write-up of the main discussion points.
I don't believe that all newspaper publishers who go to a paid model will find themselves in considerable trouble. There are two key points which will determine whether it is a troublesome transition or a triumphant transition:
Always interesting to see this issue come up again. VIP is in the final data-gathering stage of our annual survey on 'News Needs and Preferences,' and the user-side perspective on free and fee is coming through strong in the data. Respondents tell us that advertising-supported news content is relatively unimportant ...
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