The real cost of news

January 22, 2010 | In Journalism | 2 Comments

Earlier this week I sent out a Tweet asking my followers what, if anything, they would be willing to pay for news content online. While I didn’t get a large response, what I did get didn’t surprise me. People don’t want to pay for news they can get else where for free.

As a newspaper editor, working on three papers in southwest Minnesota; the subject of online news interests me greatly. Recently we launched three new online editions of our paper, all free to the reader. We’re still working on our online model and watching with great interest what others are doing.

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