Future of newspapers is free: survey by KATE HOLTON , Reuters via Globe and Mail (May 6)
"Newspapers seeking to compete with the Internet are likely to become free and place greater emphasis on comment and opinion in the future, a survey of the world's editors showed on Tuesday."
Globe and Mail is moving in this direction. It announced in May that it was going to retire the Globe Insider subscription service and make content from columnists free for 30 days. However, they are also introducing a for-fee Globe Plus service for financial / investment information, electronic version of the daily print paper, and access to archives back to Jan 2000. ($15.95 / month starting May 31, 2008)
Posted by Gwen at May 8, 2008 04:07 PM