Posted on 01/30/2011 1:11:40 PM PST by lbryce
A personalized news service funded by New York Times Co., Washington Post Co, and Gannett Co launched on Tuesday in an attempt to get readers to pay for online news.
Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the three newspaper publishers, delivers news from a variety of sources starting at $7 a month.
The basic subscription plan includes articles from the Associated Press, the Washington Post, USA Today and select stories from the New York Times and Pearson PLC's Financial Times. Users can add titles, such as the Guardian and the Detroit Free Press, for 99 cents a month for each additional source.
Ongo's layout hews closely to print with stories presented in several columns, although it is accessed through web browsers, smartphones and tablets.
Many newspapers are experimenting with models that require some form of payment to access online news as an additional revenue stream to advertising. Newspaper online advertising represents only 11 percent of total newspaper advertising, according to the latest figures from the Newspaper Association of America.
For instance, the New York Times plans to launch a metered pay system, requiring readers to pay after accessing a certain number of articles, during the first quarter. A.H. Belo's Dallas Morning News is also gearing up to roll out a paid news site.
Ongo, based in Cupertino, Calif., is founded by Alex Kazim, a former president of Skype and eBay executive who worked on PayPal.
New York Times shares were down 2 percent at $10.42 in early trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Gannett shares were down 0.5 percent at $14.79, while Washington Post shares were up 1.4 percent at $445.54.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
For instance, the New York Times plans to launch a metered pay system, requiring readers to pay after accessing a certain number of articles, during the first quarter. A.H. Belo's Dallas Morning News is also gearing up to roll out a paid news site.
The "Big Papers" are rolling out all sorts of pay plan schemes but it's all just a re-shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
$7 a month? Sorry, donating to FR is a better option.
We have something called TV...They should have invested in TV stations...instead of keeping their toilet paper business.
There is no way on Gods green Earth that I am paying to read the Dallas Mourning Snooze on the internet
TV commercial running now for the NY slime has a young person speaking directly to the camera, “ By subscribing to the NY times you are recieving undebatedly the best journalists in the country. undebatedly! your only as good as your team which means your so called journalists suck because your broke!
... an investment which should pay out in about three or four hundred years if the newsers are somehow still around at that time.
Your buddies are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic again ping.
Aside from fish wrap and birdcage liner, the only two useful functions that a newspaper has is the crossword and something to hide behind on the morning commute.
If the NYT folded their operations and only kept the crossword editor on staff, they would be in the black in 6 months. And they can operate out of the Starbucks on 42nd street.
Right. That would be the only part of the company still making a bit of a profit, lol
Right. That would be the only part of the company still making a bit of a profit, lol
———Associated Press, the Washington Post, USA Today and select stories from the New York Times and Pearson PLC’s Financial Times.———
We have learned on Free Republic that the best reporting on American news comes from a select few British newspapers
Good luck with that pay plan! There’s $12 million down the crapper.
7 bucks a month to hear from all the communist front groups?? I used to get that for 25 cents a copy and didn’t pay any attention to it then.
Why in Gods green earth would I want to pay 7 bucks a month when I can got to other sources and get it free and get something more than ruling class lies.
Why in Gods green earth would I want to pay 7 bucks a month when I can got to other sources and get it free and get something more than ruling class lies.
Why in Gods green earth would I want to pay 7 bucks a month when I can got to other sources and get it free and get something more than ruling class lies.
“The basic subscription plan includes articles from the Associated Press, the Washington Post, USA Today and select stories from the New York Times.”
But I don’t WANT articles from these guys, or Reuters either. I “pay” (donate) more than $7/month to FR now.
Okay, who wants to start a death pool for this plan? I swear, it’s like the management and the boards at these places have absolutely no long-term memory whatsoever.
For $7.00/month, “the basic subscription plan includes articles from the Associated Press, the Washington Post, USA Today and select stories from the New York Times ...”
OMG! That is just so hilarious! This is the ultimate subscription plan for a smorgasbord of leftest lies! Man, and they expect thinking people will PAY to read these lies??? Delusional, simply delusional.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.