Nov 19
Wallflowers at the New Media Dance: Newspapers Can’t Decide On Paid Content
Posted: under This week in paid content.
Tags: Alan Mutter, BBC, charging for online content, Guardian, media, Murdoch, new media, New York Times, Newsday, online, paid content, paywalls, reinventing newspapers, Soitu.es
Due to some intense consulting projects, multimedia presentations at national conferences, and BizDev meetings with like-minded New Media entrepreneurs, there has been quite a gap in my updates on the whole “Will they or won’t they” kerfuffle over paid content. This should get us up to about last Friday; tomorrow, I will post this week’s follies – and there have been a lot of them.
The overriding theme these days seems to be borrowed from the debate over the war in Afghanistan: dithering. Waffling. Hemming and hawing.
The newspaper industry is shifting from foot to foot, licking its lips, and generally acting like a 14-year-old boy at his first school dance, afraid to take the Big Leap.
This is the screen that pops up on Newsday.com, bugging you to subscribe.
