http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/29/new-york-times-contest-brings-tech-start-ups-into-its-headquarters/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 20:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/29/new-york-times-contest-brings-tech-start-ups-into-its-headquarters/#comment-198643 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:41:22 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223841#comment-198643 problem is the “free stuff” is stolen from companies like the NYT that pay people for
its production. Once this is gone it will all be Fox News and adios Free Press. People
will get what they pay for.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/29/new-york-times-contest-brings-tech-start-ups-into-its-headquarters/#comment-198574 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:06:53 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=223841#comment-198574 Of course the problem isn’t technology, it’s getting people to pay for the reporting when there is so much free stuff available. So they can mess around with some cool flippy, dippy display technology, but it’s really about getting people to pay and that’s hard when the news business doesn’t have a monopoly like it did in the 50s and 60s and even 70s.

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