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Also, what is the incentive to scoop in today's media climate? If one news outlet breaks a story - even if it's a multi-month, highly-researched think piece -
by karmelapple 10y ago
Also, what is the incentive to scoop in today's media climate?
If one news outlet breaks a story - even if it's a multi-month, highly-researched think piece - every other website will quickly summarize it and provide one link back to it. The link back is at least citing the source, but the summary is likely good enough for most users, and the originating news outlet gets no ad revenue if the reader only reads the summary.
How can we shift that incentive?
- lambertsimnel 10y agoBe careful about shifting the incentive. One way to get scoops is to cozy up to news makers, who are typically powerful people and often politicians in government.
- zigzigzag 10y agoPaywalls. Quite a few right-leaning papers in the UK have already gone that way. As have WashPo and the NYT! The Telegraph and the Times are both behind paywalls. For the Times, their readership crashed but their profits went up.