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Monday
Jul 20, 2009
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Charging for Access to News Sites — Martin
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John Gruber on newspaper’s plan to charge for access:
The potential revenue does not appear to be of the magnitude that will support the massive operations of existing news organizations. What works in today’s web landscape are lean and mean organizations with little or no management bureaucracy -- operations where nearly every employee is working on producing actual content....
Old-school news companies aren’t like that -- the editorial staff makes up only a fraction of the total head count at major newspaper and magazine companies. The question these companies should be asking is, “How do we keep reporting and publishing good content?” Instead, though, they’re asking “How do we keep making enough money to support our existing management and advertising divisions?” It’s dinosaurs and mammals.
Gruber is busy writing the book on new journalism right now. His one-man technology blog, Daring Fireball, has more influence than many of the mainstream tech writers. For good reason, too: he’s ethical, writes incredibly well, and offers reasoned perspective.
I would hazard a guess that he has better sources than nearly anybody else covering Apple today. And he did it completely outside of the mainstream journalism system.
