For sale: online local news
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Murdochitis has struck in Scotland.
“One of the UK’s biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles,” says the BBC.
“The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers.”
You’ll recall Ruposaur Murdochus Corporatus seeks to ‘monetise’ online content by making people pay for it.
Now, “One of the UK’s biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles,” says the story, going on >>>
The Johnston Press websites will either ask users to pay £5 for a three-month subscription to read the full articles, or direct them to buy the newspapers.
Johnston is the first regional publisher in the UK to trial asking readers to pay for its online news.
Sites in the pilot scheme include the Worksop Guardian, the Ripley & Heanor News and the Whitby Gazette.
The Northumberland Gazette is also included in the trial. In Scotland, the Carrick Gazette and Southern Reporter are taking part.
But the lamescream news corpse is so, well, yesterday.
Information wants to be free. And it is. Online, anyway. And as long as people continue to inform each other, completely bypassing traditional ’sources, that’s the way it’ll stay.
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BBC – Johnston Press starts charging for online local news, November 30, 2009
‘monetise’ online content – Why would anyone pay for MySpace music?, November 17, 2009
Also see:
Dropping the PayWall barrier, Jenna McWilliams, November 25, 2009
Murdoch, `would-be ringleader of a massive jailbreak`, Nick Carr, November 27, 2009
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November 30th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Guess which online papers I WON’T be reading??
December 1st, 2009 at 12:29 am
Fail, epic fail. People won’t pay for national news, they aren’t going to pay to read about Mrs. Dobson getting fined $50 because her Poodle shit on the sidewalk.