Here is my suggestion for monetizing internet content. I wish more of you would latch on to this idea. There needs to be a service that provides access to large numbers of news source. The news services get a fee for every access to an article that comes through the service. This way consumers don't have to subscribe to the small number of services they can afford. For the same kind of money, they get to access many sources on a per article basis. The consumer's wide access is preserved. The news services get paid for articles that people actually want to read. Companies like Google have the technology to do this. This is how they pay peopple who put Google ads on their web sites. So it should be no great leap to use this technology for something useful, supporting journalism.
If no company will provide such a subscription service, organizations like yours should get together and form a cooperative to provide the service. It seems to me to be such an obvious adaptation to the internet age, that I cannot understand why nobody has taken up this idea.
A cooperative would be a very very interesting way to manage a network of local news sources. It’s an interesting idea but requires a business acumen that I’m not even close to having
Talk it up among the people you know. You might find someone with the business and technical acumen to do it. I am glad you see the potential in the idea.
Here is my suggestion for monetizing internet content. I wish more of you would latch on to this idea. There needs to be a service that provides access to large numbers of news source. The news services get a fee for every access to an article that comes through the service. This way consumers don't have to subscribe to the small number of services they can afford. For the same kind of money, they get to access many sources on a per article basis. The consumer's wide access is preserved. The news services get paid for articles that people actually want to read. Companies like Google have the technology to do this. This is how they pay peopple who put Google ads on their web sites. So it should be no great leap to use this technology for something useful, supporting journalism.
If no company will provide such a subscription service, organizations like yours should get together and form a cooperative to provide the service. It seems to me to be such an obvious adaptation to the internet age, that I cannot understand why nobody has taken up this idea.
A cooperative would be a very very interesting way to manage a network of local news sources. It’s an interesting idea but requires a business acumen that I’m not even close to having
Talk it up among the people you know. You might find someone with the business and technical acumen to do it. I am glad you see the potential in the idea.