MediaGuardian: Charging for online news won’t work, says Future’s Spring
November 27th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Magazines
Introducing a pay wall around general news content hasn’t got ‘a cat in hell’s chance’ of working, Stevie Spring, chief executive of magazine group Future, said yesterday.
Spring discussed Future’s approach to paid content online and said the group is experimenting with a mixture of business models.
Tags: Future, Stevie Spring
Similar posts:
- Silicon Alley Insider: Time Inc to start experiment with paid-for content
- FT.com: Guardian considered six different pay models
- Future: Digital ads going from strength-to-strength
- Press Gazette: MEN shifts part-paid, part-free strategy
- AJR: Newspaper journalists are not to blame for industry downturn