Mediacafé # 4: Free news, bad news?
Must online news be free?
Thursday 18 November 2010 - 20:15
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The Times recently installed a so-called ‘paywall’ around its online edition, an invention of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. You only get access to the news if you pay. Belgian publications De Tijd and L’Echo follow this example. American research shows nevertheless that only 7% of recipients wants to pay for their favourite news site. Can we transfer the old business models, in which we pay for printed newspapers, straight to online media? Quality costs money and in that view we should pay for online editions as well. But isn’t quality a fundamental right in a democracy?
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