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Long time coming. Great product and great service. They're fighting for the survival of the paradigm.

bioh42_2 16y ago
Long time coming. Great product and great service. They're fighting for the survival of the paradigm. What is that paradigm? I think some news outlets, mostly business, have proven people are willing to pay for valuable news, the WSJ comes to mind. The NY Times has a mix of hard news and soft opinions, their main problem is that almost the same news is available from many free sources around the Internet. So I am genuinely perplexed as to what the paradigm is?
- Gaussian 16y ago
  The paradigm is one news outlet having reporters all over the country and the world covering things that may or may not make ripples in financial markets, but may be just as or more important. It's one outlet having the breadth to well cover a breaking event with disparate news aspects (the Japan earthquake being a good example) that touch all manners of people and businesses across the globe. Every decent-sized metro daily used to have bureaus in Beirut, Israel, Egypt, etc. There are plenty of reasons, some of them good, that this is no longer the case. The New York Times is one of the last vestiges of that age and I don't think that nostalgia is the only reason we should root for its success. The only thing that guarantees that success, as Rupert Murdoch has pointed out, is sustainable profitability. I think the Times' move to charge people for their coverage will ultimately be successful, just as the efforts of the FT and WSJ have been and, to a degree, as NPR's has been.
MatthewPhillips 16y ago
$420 a year for full access (online only).
- donohoe 16y ago
  At the top bracket. At its lowest, its $195. http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscriptions-and-purchases.html#purchasesq01 http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscr...
  - mattlanger 16y ago
    You're selling yourself short though--at the lowest it's actually free, just like, you know, every other freemium model on the web.

Long time coming. Great product and great service. They're fighting for the survival of the paradigm. What is that paradigm? I think some news outlets, mostly business, have proven people are willing to pay for valuable news, the WSJ comes to mind. The NY Times has a mix of hard news and soft opinions, their main problem is that almost the same news is available from many free sources around the Internet. So I am genuinely perplexed as to what the paradigm is?

Gaussian 16y ago
The paradigm is one news outlet having reporters all over the country and the world covering things that may or may not make ripples in financial markets, but may be just as or more important. It's one outlet having the breadth to well cover a breaking event with disparate news aspects (the Japan earthquake being a good example) that touch all manners of people and businesses across the globe. Every decent-sized metro daily used to have bureaus in Beirut, Israel, Egypt, etc. There are plenty of reasons, some of them good, that this is no longer the case. The New York Times is one of the last vestiges of that age and I don't think that nostalgia is the only reason we should root for its success. The only thing that guarantees that success, as Rupert Murdoch has pointed out, is sustainable profitability. I think the Times' move to charge people for their coverage will ultimately be successful, just as the efforts of the FT and WSJ have been and, to a degree, as NPR's has been.

MatthewPhillips 16y ago

$420 a year for full access (online only).

donohoe 16y ago
At the top bracket. At its lowest, its $195. http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscriptions-and-purchases.html#purchasesq01 http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscr...
- mattlanger 16y ago
  You're selling yourself short though--at the lowest it's actually free, just like, you know, every other freemium model on the web.