With the decline in newspaper sales in current times, newspaper companies are seeking to gain more revenue from their still popular online news sites. Currently, most of the companies revenue from online news comes from advertising. Currently, most news sites have left the news sites free of charge to the viewer.
However, according to an AFP article on breitbart.com, many news company leaders gathering at the Bloomberg Businessweek Media Summit are discussing changing the norms of online news sites. Organizations such as the New York Times and others are now considering requiring viewers to pay for certain content. Currently, the New York Times is not planning to make viewerspay for all of their news, they plan for people to pay for localized and specific news. Some critics blame news organizations for not requiring payed content earlier. They claim that by not requiring payment earlier, viewers have come to expect free news. Others argue that requiring paid news now would be the end for the news corporations, because people would just turn to alternate news sources.
Whether or not news sites require payment is still up in the air. Few corporations have tried it and they have lost many many viewers. So, while the News corporations have the right to charge for their news, it might not be the best way to increase revenues or viewership.
In mostly love and a little peace,
Blogdor the Dragon
original article: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8183c890097b4de5bad3e2314bcad683.a1&show_article=1
Friday, March 12, 2010
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