Posts Tagged: The State of News Media

1. Most people say they do not want to pay for their news.  In The State of the News Media, they offer two solutions and ask people if they had to choose, which would they pick: a subscription model, or a pay-as-you-go model.  Many said neither.  Can news organizations get people to pay for content, or is another, more creative approach needed?

2. Citizen journalists were asked their motivations for starting their website.  For most, money was rated very low.  Yet, when asked about their future needs, they discussed adding revenue, improving the business model, and advertising advice.  These two ideas seem contradictory to me.  What could be the cause of this discrepancy?

3. I found it interesting that the study found that most of the online news traffic is on the websites of traditional news outlets.  They them made the correlation that if cutbacks are made in traditional media, it is also affecting what readers get on their online outlets.  Is it realistic to think that traditional news outlets will go completely online– for example, there no longer be a New York Times newspaper, only a NYTimes.com?