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Posted on 4/22/19 at 3:51 pm to OweO
quote:No, but they recently started some premium content BS. You only get to read like 3 of their "full story" reports per month without having to pay. I literally lol'd when I first saw that. You're just a local rag, Business Report. No one's going to pay for your content.
You have to pay for the business report?
Posted on 4/22/19 at 4:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:Death throes.
Every day, more and more newspapers, including the big national ones, are moving behind a paywall.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 4:06 pm to LSUFanHouston
quote:No doubt. It probably would have been a better plan to improve the quality of the content before asking people to pay for it, though.
The Advocate is going to have to invest in higher-quality journalism with this subscription fee. If they don't improve the content and the quality of the website, this will surely fail.
Posted on 4/22/19 at 4:39 pm to LSUFanHouston
I posted something similar on a similar topic so here goes.
Newspapers are getting squeezed on 3 sides, social media, declining advertising revenue, and increases in content fees.
Social media is cutting them out because, you don’t need a reporter to tell you what is going on when someone just posted about it.
Declining advertising revenue is also killing them, no longer are they the only place to put that you have a rummage sale, job opening, car for sale, or other useless junk for sale. The only place that was consistent for news papers is legal advertisements. In the state of Louisiana, there is a law that says which newspapers are eligible and who can cash in what could be considered a state subsidy to news papers for legal notices for minutes of meetings and public announcements. This has to be their gravy train right now.
And then tune last is what I said in a previous post, content fees are also killing them.
AP is the leading distributions of national content, and that is constantly going up for less. Also, you supply some news to them that eventually ends up in your competition such as TV sites and other regional papers.
I recently saw a copy physical copy of our local paper the Courier which has trimmed its staff and layout and has had a pay wall for years.
The paper was awfully thin. It was about 6 pages laid out on 2 actual sheets folded. I can remember when it was much thicker. It would take months to build up enough paper for a crawfish boil now.
The Courier used to be owned by the Old Gray Lady herself The New York Times.
Now, it is owned by a company called GateHouse Media and they have trimmed everything to the bone. The company was recently the subject of a story about the state of publishing and how they are starting to close papers.
Newspapers are getting squeezed on 3 sides, social media, declining advertising revenue, and increases in content fees.
Social media is cutting them out because, you don’t need a reporter to tell you what is going on when someone just posted about it.
Declining advertising revenue is also killing them, no longer are they the only place to put that you have a rummage sale, job opening, car for sale, or other useless junk for sale. The only place that was consistent for news papers is legal advertisements. In the state of Louisiana, there is a law that says which newspapers are eligible and who can cash in what could be considered a state subsidy to news papers for legal notices for minutes of meetings and public announcements. This has to be their gravy train right now.
And then tune last is what I said in a previous post, content fees are also killing them.
AP is the leading distributions of national content, and that is constantly going up for less. Also, you supply some news to them that eventually ends up in your competition such as TV sites and other regional papers.
I recently saw a copy physical copy of our local paper the Courier which has trimmed its staff and layout and has had a pay wall for years.
The paper was awfully thin. It was about 6 pages laid out on 2 actual sheets folded. I can remember when it was much thicker. It would take months to build up enough paper for a crawfish boil now.
The Courier used to be owned by the Old Gray Lady herself The New York Times.
Now, it is owned by a company called GateHouse Media and they have trimmed everything to the bone. The company was recently the subject of a story about the state of publishing and how they are starting to close papers.
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