Our Real Problem: The Death of the News Package
Friday, 4 December 2009, 11:20 via Delicious/martinstabe
Adam Tinworth on what people are really paying for when they put down a few coins for a newspaper or magazine: "we journalists have a bias towards the news element of the publication that our readers do not share. We got into journalism to 'do news'. They were buying a mix of news, features, comments, comics and crosswords that added up to a valuable package of information and entertainment in one handy portable product. ...
So, in essence, we never really charged people for news." Read More...
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