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Maybe it's possible to create a sort of tiered system. The latest news and top stories are always free, but the detailed analysis and exposes (the stuff that us
by dabockster 8y ago
Maybe it's possible to create a sort of tiered system. The latest news and top stories are always free, but the detailed analysis and exposes (the stuff that usually wins awards) require a subscription. On the more local news level, maybe require a subscription to read the restaurant reviews or something.
I'm not going to pretend that this is the end all solution. But both the open web and journalism cannot survive in the present state. We have to adapt.
- doh 8y agoGigaom tried that before, but it didn't work that well. Very few people care about the topic that they will purchase the analysis. Not enough for the business to be sustainable. Seems like there is a market for deeper analysis done stratchery, the information and couple of others, but it barely sustains a few writers, hardly able to compete with the large scale newsrooms of WSJ, WaPo, NYT, ...
- dabockster 8y ago> Gigaom The issue with your observations is that Gigaom isn't known widely outside of big tech. So I don't feel it's fair to compare their failure to the possibility of a mainstream outlet attempting this.
- doh 8y agoAgree, they weren't known outside of big tech. My thinking is, that if they couldn't get it to work in a specific category, then it would be even harder to make it work in more general one. In general, a very few people care about any topic enough to purchase deeper analysis of it. I'm not sure that this would work as a business model in general.