Nothing Is Free

Late last year, Rupert Mur­doch, News Corp.‘s chair­man and chief exec­u­tive, said “Good jour­nal­ism is an expen­sive com­mod­ity.” It’s well-known that any­one get­ting into jour­nal­ism doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily do so for the money. It ain’t good.

Still, I dis­agree with Mur­doch in that the future of news requires read­ers to pay for it. Maybe for spe­cialty pub­li­ca­tions, but not for the every­day news—especially online. Why are news pro­duc­ers still hav­ing trou­ble with this? (more…)