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Posts Tagged ‘payment’

What’s next in the quest to fund online news?

If you read my last post, Think bigger than micropayments, you may be wondering what steps are being taken right now to ensure a future for newspapers. Let me clarify a few things first.

1. Journalism will always have a future. Newspapers are only one form of journalism production.
2. Ideas are constantly being brought to light and critiqued. The two ideas receiving the most attention right now are micropayments, which I believe cannot attract an audience seeking quick, easy and unintruding online news sources, and endowing the press, which would create ethical problems, misplace responsibility and reduce hard work.

We’re living in a time where journalism is not just in print newspapers anymore. Unfortunately, the media have not adapted well to the changing times. The only way to usher them into the year 2009 is to form a new system that encourages competition, especially in multimedia journalism, while adapting to each …

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Think bigger than micropayments

Though media has many different channels, journalists are especially concerned with funding online news right now. I had a thought that stemmed from the micropayment theories floating around the web, and it incorporates necessary qualities that I talked about earlier (identifying the audience, establishing a relationship, and serving their needs).

We could create a platform that links all news sites that wish to participate, forming something like a “society” of newspapers. Net surfers would register with an email address, and the platform would provide a monthly allowance of free page views that could be used to visit any news sites that opt to be a part of the platform. If and when the allowance has been used, the net surfers who want to continue using the platform could purchase another web page allowance or they could purchase access to a specific news site directly through the site they want to use. …

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