Friday 6 November 2015

Newspapers go on the hunt for a safe place to pay

The New York Times headquarters

"Will their future be ruled by subscriptions, limited access, cash online before information? "

"The New York Times’s latest survival plan involves keeping its paywalls in place – a million readers pay now to roam beyond them – and keeping journalist numbers up: a 1,300-strong newsroom stays."

" It’ll need to double digital revenue from $400m a year to $800m by 2020"

This article explains how the news industry is finding ways to survive in the digital age, it discusses how they predict that paywalls are the way forward and that the new york times now has 1million paid subscribers, this has helped keep the job of journalists and also increase them. Also that the paywall as enabled for much greater content being produced.

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