Post’s owner to charge for some content at Salt Lake City paper and others
Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews Group and publisher of The Denver Post and Salt Lake Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY — The publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune says next year, the state’s largest daily will start charging readers a fee to look at some content on the web. (KSL.com)
This is big news in the news world, where there’s been furious debate over the issue. But Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews Group and publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune and The Denver Post, says it’s time for the Trib and Media General’s other dailies to stop giving away all of its content.
“We can’t continue to give everything away for free,” says Singleton. “When you give it away for free, it has no value. When you begin charging for it, it has some value.”
Singleton spoke Thursday night to the National Conference of Editorial Writers, a group well aware of the industry’s rising costs and falling income.
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Charging for content only insures ain’t nobody gonna read it.
Brilliant.
“We can’t continue to give everything away for free,” says Singleton. “When you give it away for free, it has no value. When you begin charging for it, it has some value.”
Patty Calhoun over at Westword might disagree with you. Broadcast networks might disagree with you.
It’s called “advertising.” Sell some.
Does anyone find it ironic that we read about this…. online?