Comments on: Digital First Media is working on paywalls, even though it really doesn’t want to http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Smith http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-201090 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:52:25 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-201090 I still believe that John Paton and many others have clung to the “newspapers are dead” mantra so long that they are bent on making it a self-fulfilling prophesy.

]]> By: Mike Hoover http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-199201 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:37:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-199201 So John Paton is investing time, resources and credibility into something he doesn’t believe in and says doesn’t work. Genius.

]]> By: Dale A. Duncan http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-199173 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:49:27 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-199173 He doesn’t want to do it because he knows his content is terrible and he will have to pay money to improve it to be successful with a metered model.

]]> By: Jeff Stanger http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-199151 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:52:43 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-199151 Oldnewspaperman, is Rosen really hedging anything? I think he writes an accurate account of what’s going on. I particularly like this quote: “Digitally, the original sin wasn’t failing to charge when the first news sites came online; it was re-purposing the old platform’s material.”

]]> By: JayRosen http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-199147 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:36:44 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-199147 Really? I’m hedging my bets? I did not know that, “oldnewspaperman.” But I am open to persuasion. Which bets did you have in mind?

Had I placed a bet that “editing by click rate” was wise, ethically sound and would lead to success? Where did I do so? Because I cannot recall saying anything like that. Had I bet that online advertising would equal the lost revenues from the decline of print? I can’t recall ever saying — or believing — that so you’ll have to help me with where I placed that bet. Got a link or something? Had I somewhere signed on to the proposition that you CAN “cut your way to the future?” If so, I am not aware it. Did I claim that bloggers and citizen journalists CAN fill the gap when there are fewer journalists at the capital or city hall watching what goes on? I’m quite sure I never made that claim, but if you say I did… any evidence?

If these are not the bets I made that I am now, according to you, hedging, which ones did you have in mind, “oldnewspaperman.”

Sincerely
Jay Rosen
http://pressthink.org

]]> By: oldnewspaperman http://paidcontent.org/2013/02/04/digital-first-media-is-working-on-paywalls-even-though-it-really-doesnt-want-to/#comment-199103 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:32:52 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=224107#comment-199103 Have to believe Paton is on a short clock to turn things around. His “stacking digital dimes” mantra was a fantasy. Now even his Thunderdome consultants are hedging their bets.

http://pressthink.org/2013/02/look-youre-right-okay-but-youre-also-wrong/

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