Hearst to Charge for Content
A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that drilled down on what exactly Hearst was planning. As Swartz writes: "Exactly how much paid content to hold back from our free sites will be a judgment call made daily by our management, whose mission should be to run the best free Web sites in our markets without compromising our ability to get a fair price from consumers for the expensive, unique reporting and writing that we produce each day." The burning question: what in the P-I will you pay to read?
4 comment(s)
Viv says:
I would pay for the P.I's wonderful local investigative reporting and Rebekah Denn's blog.
Viv/Seattle Bon Vivant
Downtown Seattle
Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 28 2009 @ 9:50PM
Maggie says:
Art Thiel. Some other columnists. Not for news you can get everywhere else.
Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 28 2009 @ 10:12PM
Ex-Times says:
Thiel, Moore, Horsey and the NYTimes Xword. P.S. Thanks for covering the P-I story. It won't just be the impact of a dead paper next month, but of all the news - the deep reporting and investigations - we'll never miss because we didn't know it was there.
Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 1 2009 @ 8:55AM
Dave Murray says:
I am already a subscriber, as are maybe 100,000 other people. I'd assume a good number of them would be willing to pay for the very same people or features they're already shelling out for. Why isn't the P-I reaching out to us?
Posted On: Sunday, Mar. 1 2009 @ 2:42PM