The two big TR business units are legal and financial, and both industries pay for access to information when it helps their businesses. I worked on some of th

The two big TR business units are legal and financial, and both industries pay for access to information when it helps their businesses. I worked on some of the legal products, and customers were much more sensitive to completeness and accuracy of information they could obtain than the average person with a newspaper. Even with "free" news products people would also pay for alerts.