{"id":432932,"date":"2010-03-15T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T22:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003287"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:29:48","slug":"online-readers-unwilling-to-pay-for-news-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432932","title":{"rendered":"Online Readers Unwilling To Pay For News Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/internetspaywall-thumb-240x180-38170.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>As some news sites &#8212; especially those belonging to national newspapers &#8212; move or consider moving behind pay walls as a way to increase revenue, a new study shows that an overwhelming number of online news readers have no interest in paying for content.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey by the Pew Foundation&#8217;s Project For Excellence In Journalism, the number of people getting their news from websites is now at around 53% of all American adults. But only 35% of those say they have a single, &#8220;favorite&#8221; site.<\/p>\n<p>And, making matters even more dire for those considering the pay wall model, 82% of those with favorite news sites say they would not pay for content from that site.<\/p>\n<p>That means &#8212; and please correct me if my math is wrong &#8212; only about 3.33% of all American adults would be willing to pay for news online.<\/p>\n<p>Write the Pew peeps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In sum, there appears to be only a very small cohort of voracious news consumers who have to have their news from a particular site, even if they have to pay for it. The vast majority of online news consumers, though, seem willing to browse for news from many sites, do not have a favorite online news source, and even if they do, are not willing to pay for that site&#8217;s content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think:<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2905443.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2905443\/\">Would you be willing to pay for your favorite news site?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\">online surveys<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofthemedia.org\/2010\/press_page.php\" >State of the News Media 2010<\/a> [Project for Excellence in Journalism]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some news sites &#8212; especially those belonging to national newspapers &#8212; move or consider moving behind pay walls as a way to increase revenue, a new study shows that an overwhelming number of online news readers have no interest in paying for content. According to a survey by the Pew Foundation&#8217;s Project For Excellence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}