{"id":219033,"date":"2009-11-06T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745923954793947308.post-3606945194617072353"},"modified":"2009-11-06T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:51:28","slug":"pay-walls-never-may-come-at-some-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219033","title":{"rendered":"Pay walls never may come at some papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alan Mutter
newsosaur.blogspot.com
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The resolve to charge for most interactive content is dissolving at some newspapers<\/strong>, potentially thwarting the plans of other publishers who still hope to erect pay walls on their sites. <\/p>\n

Despite determined statements by several publishers earlier this year that they intended to make consumers pay for the valuable content newspapers have given away for more than a decade, the managers of some newspapers have come to realize that they can\u2019t afford to lose the traffic that pay walls almost certainly would turn away.<\/p>\n

So, the executives are scrapping plans to charge for most, if any, of their content. The latest thinking \u2013 which, of course, is far from unanimous across the industry \u2013 is illustrated in two fresh data points:<\/p>\n

– Goli Sheikholeslami, the general manager of WashingtonPost.Com, told a conference at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard last week that \u201cnot enough people are willing to pay\u201d to make the sale of online content a viable business. \u201cIf could get 5 million people to pay me to visit my site each month, I would be done,\u201d she said. But Sheikholeslami said she has no hope of doing so.<\/p>\n

– Although Hearst Corp. attracted headlines in February when its top newspaper executive said he aimed to start charging for content, Mark Adkins, the president of the San Francisco Chronicle, told me last week that \u201cwe believe in being a free website\u201d but plan to develop supplementary \u201cpremium content we will charge for.\u201d . . . READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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