Pay-per-view journalism

Rough Type by Nick Carr | Jan. 16, 2007 (Opinion)

Pay-per-view journalism is inevitable. It simply brings the compensation model in line with the content model. Online publishing breaks the old bundled-content model of print publishing. Once content moves online, writers are no longer contributing to the overall value of a package - a newspaper or a magazine, say. Each of their stories becomes a discrete product. As I've written before, "The web unbundles the bundle - each story becomes a separate entity ... Full Story »

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4.0

by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Thoughtful piece about an alarming trend in paying journalists based on the number of page views they generate. Well-sourced, factual, good context.

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by Mark Mayhew - Oct. 1, 2008

this is good journalism. the article gives an overall picture of journalism, and it gives an informed opinion on where journalism may be headed.

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by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a decent look at a trend in on-line reporting and payments. It makes clear a basic issue and driving force that is the logical result of current Web economic thinking and it makes it accessible to many uninvolved readers. There is nothing new about the commercialization of reportage, this is the first time it's been practical "in print" as it were. This article says so.

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