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If you have enjoyed the free Los Angeles Times online newspaper of the past, be advised that the free is over. Digital access to the LA Times will cost you $3.99 a week.
In case you haven’t noticed lately, there is blood on the newsroom floor in many towns across the United States.
From Wikipedia:
Newsprint In Decline
According to Newspaper Association of America, average U.S. daily circulation in 2006 on a typical weekday was 52.3 million (53.2 million on Sundays), compared with 62.5 million in 1986 (58.9 million on Sundays) and 57.0 million in 1996 (60.8 million on Sundays). According to NAA, daily ad revenues (not adjusted for inflation) reached their all-time peak in 2000, and by 2007 had fallen by 13%.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the future. While traditional newsprint is in the decline, paradoxically, websurfers enjoy reading news online. The question is, will readers pay for online newspapers? This question has been hovering around the blogosphere for a few years now.
Poynter media expert Bill Mitchell said that in order for a paywall to generate sustainable revenue, newspapers must create “new value” (higher quality, innovative, etcetera) in their online content that merits payment which previously free content did not.
Will you pay for online news?
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