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The vast majority of national and world news printed in newspapers is written by the Associated Press. There are licensing fees associated with AP, but it's not
by strommen 11y ago
The vast majority of national and world news printed in newspapers is written by the Associated Press.
There are licensing fees associated with AP, but it's not like the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald has a reporter on staff to get the latest scoop on the upcoming Supreme Court nomination.
The internet severely disrupted newspapers' business, and it took a while for them to figure out how to adapt.
Many of them have settled in and become profitable, mostly using a free-for-X-number-of-articles model.
Unfortunately, many newspapers initially took the approach of making everything free over the internet.
This conditioned the readers for free content, and made it tough to get money in the door for online access.
That seems to be changing though.
- FussyZeus 11y agoThe source of the content is irrelevant (however interesting, TIL). There are too many companies disseminating the same content, as you point out, for free to make the other companies viable unless the consumers feel particularly inclined to that given company. The New York Times, for example, would probably have an easier time getting subscribers than the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald because they have more reputation, deserved or not. From pure market forces though which the vast majority of consumers operate on, they have no reason to subscribe to NYT -or- DTH because there are a thousand other small papers distributing that same article as you've pointed out for free.