In trying to find a business model that pays for journalism, lots of media, like New York Times, is putting content behind paywalls. Not being able to subscribe to all the hundreds of publications that I see headlines for on social media, I've often thought there could be a pay per article system set up.
Recently, there was a show on KQED that talked about problems in the advertising business; advertising also a revenue source for journalism. Someone suggested that sites like Facebook should pay for the news content they use.
Bingo, a light came on in my head. There could be a premium version of (for instance) Facebook that could get people past paywalls of various participating publications. Maybe a pay per article feature that would keep track and deduct from one's subscriber account or maybe a flat fee that would cover participating media.
Years ago America Online had something like that. Free access to certain magazines that came with your membership in AOL. Remember the 1990s?
2 comments:
In a way Google already does this. YouTube Red/Premium ore two pay services with Red you get all commercial free YouTube content. With Premium you get the commercial free movies and unlimited access to the largest digital music library. Chris Wells
Thanks. It would be great to have something like that for newspaper articles.
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