Free/Pay Readings

Updated Sept 30th

Free Pay Background reading:

http://www.poynter.org/article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?user=&id=158210

http://www.observer.com/2009/media/decision-times-pay-model-will-come-gut

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203440104574400582081349944-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwNTEyNDUyWj.html

http://www.legalrebels.com/posts/david_lat_interviews_steve_brill/

http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2009/09/22/11799/star_tribune_sets_vikings_paywall_price_20_bucks_a_year

And when we discuss “Losing the News” here’s the latest on this from Clay Shirky:

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/archive/2009/shirky_09-22-09.html

Posted before Sept 30th

Q/A with Martin Niesenholtz

Link to the Q and A

Mathew Ingram

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2009/02/10/paying-for-the-news-a-link-a-thon/

Stephen Brill’s plan to save the New York Times with micropayments:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210

Walter Isaacson writes in Time about a payment scheme for news
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html

David Carr of the NYT proposes (or wishes for) an “iTunes for news”
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12carr.html

Clay Shirky on why micropayment schemes don’t work
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html

A more recent, and better, update from Shirky:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/02/why-small-payments-wont-save-publishers/

A counterpoint that says micropayments will work:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
browsing.justdiscourse.com/2009/02/09/can-apple-save-the-publishing-industry/

Henry Blodget recommends the NYT go back to a pay wall:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
Link to Henry Blodget post

Felix Salmon of Portfolio magazine responds to Blodget:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
Link to Felix Salmon Post

Another argument for the TimesSelect model:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.ojr.org/ojr/people/gstorch/200901/1631/

Salon founder Scott Rosenberg on why micropayments won’t work:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.wordyard.com/2009/02/05/isaacsons-pitch-for-micropayments/

A response to Isaacson: “news has to stand on its own two feet”
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
link to article

Chris “Long Tail” Anderson on free vs. paid:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
online.wsj.com/article/SB123335678420235003.html

some thoughts from Jeff Jarvis:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.buzzmachine.com/2009/02/09/can-journalism-go-with-the-flow/

Rex Sorgatz, formerly of MSNBC, imagines a micro-payment system:
http:// <http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210>
www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-5713.cfm

Alan Mutter: The future is micro-payments, and a cartel:
http:// <http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210>
newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-charge-for-content-theoretically.html

Michael Kinsley: “You can’t sell news by the slice”
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/opinion/10kinsley.html?ref=opinion

Journalism teacher Mark Hamilton on micro-payments:
http:// <http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210>
www.tamark.ca/students/2009/02/08/paying-a-little/

Nick Carr on supply and demand in the news business:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=158210
www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/02/misreading_news.php

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