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Journalism’s salvation is hiding in a mountain of data

By Michael Becker | Published: August 3, 2010

Matthew Ingram writes at GigaOm that the newest defense of paywalls for newspaper websites is to compare them to subscription-based services that have found great success, such as HBO or Sirius satellite radio. The particular example Ingram notes comes from veteran television host Peter Funt, writing in the Wall Street Journal. Funt contends that people complaining [...]

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Set the good stuff free and charge for the peas

By Michael Becker | Published: February 25, 2009

The title of this post doesn’t make a lot of sense until you read an interesting post by Lucas Grindley, the online managing editor for NationalJournal.com. Grindley’s responding to the revived idea of charging for news content online, an idea that’s stuck in the craw of many “information wants to be free” advocates. Grindley’s argument [...]

Posted in New Media | Also tagged journalism, Lucas Grindley, micropayments, National Journal | Comments closed

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