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One-Stop Web Portal Thinks It Can Save Newspapers

Group thinks consumers will be willing to pay for one-stop web portal

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(Newser) – A web portal planned by some top media execs may be the way forward for beleagured newspapers. Journalism Online would act as a “one-stop shop” for pay content, writes Nate Anderson for Ars Technica. Consumers could buy subscriptions to many newspapers at low prices, and with a sliding scale of cost and access—on the thinking that readers will be more inclined to pay once than maintain several subscriptions.

Steven Brill, the venture’s founder, refers those who say the subscription model is dead to the success of the Wall Street Journal (online) and the Economist (offline). With revenue streams other than advertising to rely on, Brill thinks newspapers will start to enjoy the chief benefit of the internet: vastly lower distribution costs.

In this Wednesday, July 12, 2006 file photo, the Minneapolis skyline rises in the background of a Star Tribune newspaper vending machine.
In this Wednesday, July 12, 2006 file photo, the Minneapolis skyline rises in the background of a Star Tribune newspaper vending machine.   (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
A Chicago Tribune newspaper box is surrounded by snow on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago.
A Chicago Tribune newspaper box is surrounded by snow on a sidewalk in downtown Chicago.   (AP Photo)
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Timinator2K
Apr 16, 09 7:58 AM CDT
Why don't ALL media get together and collude to force everybody, everywhere, to pay for their news, sports and weather? Oh yeah, that's right, it wouldn't work. Sorry, newsies back to sleeping with the other dinosaurs. Reply
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ethical_person
Apr 18, 09 1:12 AM CDT
It's not YOUR news, sports and weather, Timinator2K. If someone out there doesn't pay to have the news, et al, produced, then YOU won't get any. That costs a lot of moola. It should be paid for. Simple, right? Newspapers in print form may one day disappear, but the journalists and media owners won't -- and they will be compensated for their work and their investments. Grow up. Reply
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