By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 15:20:41 | Updated at 2024-10-01 04:16:48
4 days ago
Coming Up Next on CNN: A Paywall
DNYUZ ^ | 09/26/2024
Posted on 09/26/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by DFG
The most-visited news website in the United States is trying out a paywall.
In early October, CNN will begin experimenting with charging some readers for digital access as part of a bid to shore up its business as cable television erodes industrywide, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
The company is planning a so-called metered model, which will require the site’s habitual users to pay after reading a certain number of articles, the people said. Many other publishers, including The New York Times and The New Yorker, have used metered paywalls to generate subscriptions over the past decade.
The starting price of a subscription is unclear. But the two people said that CNN would start with an inexpensive offering to gauge customer demand.
A CNN spokeswoman declined to comment.
The subscription wall is one of the first major business initiatives from Mark Thompson, CNN’s chairman and chief executive, who joined the network nearly a year ago. Mr. Thompson said in a memo to employees this year that technology would allow CNN to deliver journalism that readers “will pay for” and later said that the company would try out a paywall.
Mr. Thompson is the former chief executive of The Times, where he championed a digital subscription business that now powers the company. Since joining CNN, he has hired executives to help lay the groundwork for the network’s paywall push, including Alex MacCallum, a veteran of The Times who is now CNN’s executive vice president of digital products and services.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: cnn; media; msm; paywall
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1 posted on 09/26/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by DFG
To: DFG
Why not just pay me the $5 million contract to pull the plug.
Shhhhh: Happy to do it for free, however.
2 posted on 09/26/2024 8:11:34 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: DFG
Steal their stuff by overriding their paywalls.
That is perfect Karma for the Kommies.
3 posted on 09/26/2024 8:12:38 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
To: DFG
Well, they are going to have to pay the newly hired comedians a lot more than they are paying their hosts, “journalists”, and analists.
4 posted on 09/26/2024 8:13:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
To: DFG; Liz; ransomnote
Is there a crime, if the product being sold is knowingly false? Just asking for a friend.
5 posted on 09/26/2024 8:13:54 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: DFG
“The most-visited news website in the United States...”
If true it explains why we’re in the mess we’re in.
6 posted on 09/26/2024 8:14:31 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
To: DFG
A CNN paywall makes sense when you think about it. At the bookstore you have to pay for fiction.
7 posted on 09/26/2024 8:14:38 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: DFG
What a great business strategy! Lets make people pay for what they already dont want!
8 posted on 09/26/2024 8:14:57 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: logi_cal869
9 posted on 09/26/2024 8:16:23 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
To: DFG
“Most visited website” - only because the algorithm from Gulag sends you there first.
To: DFG
11 posted on 09/26/2024 8:18:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: DFG
CNN has a product people don’t want to read for free so they want to start charging for it? The real problem is the way they report the news but they will never fix that because of their ideology. They just can’t get it through their heads and most of America has learned to distrust them and hates them due to their bias and lies.
12 posted on 09/26/2024 8:19:09 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
To: DFG
I am starting a list of items that I will never buy at any price greater than zero.
1. In-line roller skates
2. A subscription or payment of any kind to CNN
To: DFG
Lol. What is this “CNN” they are talking about?
14 posted on 09/26/2024 8:20:17 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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