In Boing Boing, Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media proposes that major media get together a form a consortium to make content available only to subscribers for a proscribed period --- then freely after a certain time, with unlimited archival access.
He chooses a fairly chi-chi list of collaborators: New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post Financial Times Economist Atlantic Monthly Washington Monthly New Yorker
His plan would essentially bank on two million subscribers at $10 a week (which, if you subscribe to even two of these media, is what you spend now). His post includes a lively q-and-a on the proposal with NYU's Jay Rosen.
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Phil Menger
03/20/2009 19:33
Kirk you always have something valuable in your tweets besides how to save your soul or how to profit from social media. I hope more true journalists adopt this model.
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