Comments on: New York Times: Honest work means honest pay http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/20/new-york-times-honest-work-means-honest-pay/ Where media and technology meet Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:23:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Archilocus http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/20/new-york-times-honest-work-means-honest-pay/comment-page-1/#comment-372189 Archilocus Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:42:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=20518#comment-372189 I am a European and while reading NYT I care only about 8-9 articles every week. Everyday I receive NYT headlines by mail and usually I read one or two articles put in the "top stories". Generally speaking I think that frontpage articles have to be free. Frontpages are like shop windows. Do you want access to a newspaper on the whole? Pay it! NYT has to lose his influence in the world, that is bad news to journalism. I am a European and while reading NYT I care only about 8-9 articles every week. Everyday I receive NYT headlines by mail and usually I read one or two articles put in the “top stories”. Generally speaking I think that frontpage articles have to be free. Frontpages are like shop windows. Do you want access to a newspaper on the whole? Pay it! NYT has to lose his influence in the world, that is bad news to journalism.

]]> By: corones1 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/20/new-york-times-honest-work-means-honest-pay/comment-page-1/#comment-372151 corones1 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:42:41 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=20518#comment-372151 Newspapers didn't go broke giving away their content; they went broke when Craig's List started giving their ads away for free. Classified ads were the lifeblood of print, and Craig's List destroyed the market. It will be interesting to see what happens with NYTimes.com, but it irks me when people blame the flight of eyeballs ($0.35/issue) instead of the flight of ads ($100s/ad). Newspapers didn’t go broke giving away their content; they went broke when Craig’s List started giving their ads away for free. Classified ads were the lifeblood of print, and Craig’s List destroyed the market.

It will be interesting to see what happens with NYTimes.com, but it irks me when people blame the flight of eyeballs ($0.35/issue) instead of the flight of ads ($100s/ad).

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