I agree with Murdoch as I do believe that the quality of news is deteriorating. From a recent news story that I read from The Guardian, the story focused on how there has been a clear lack of journalism - the journalist Arlinghaus reports how he was live on air at a radio station and he saw that the radio host had just been reading the stories from the newspaper directly, without acknowledging the newspaper or the journalist. Thus, shows how the industry has become almost lazy as they just regurgitate information from other platforms. But in saying that, the BBC is funded by the license fee, therefore this idea of it being 'free' is one to question as in retrospect we are paying for the BBC to provide a public service. I think other news providers however, should make readers pay for their news online in order to higher the quality of journalism and provide stories that are actually worth the read instead of bad quality copycat journalism.
Was Rupert Murdoch right to put his news content (The Times, The Sunday Times) behind a paywall?
From the figures shown on the blog, it reveals how the number of digital subscriptions has increased and how putting news content behind a paywall has actually helped The Times and The Sunday Times. The Times got 13,000 new subscribers in the first half of 2013. However, despite this The Times is still losing money, however due to the company getting their profits from News Corp too, they have tolerated their losses. This shows that even though putting the content behind a paywall allows a short-term profitable income it does not allow for a sustainable income.
Choose two comments from below the Times paywall article - one that argues in favour of the paywall and one that argues against. Copy a quote from each and explain which YOU agree with and why.
Why do you think the Evening Standard has bucked the trend and increased circulation and profit in the last two years?
Choose two comments from below the Times paywall article - one that argues in favour of the paywall and one that argues against. Copy a quote from each and explain which YOU agree with and why.
Why do you think the Evening Standard has bucked the trend and increased circulation and profit in the last two years?
It is estimated by the National Readership Survey, has fallen 13 percent on average compared to the previous year, with particularly bad results for the Independent, Daily Mirror and Guardian.The Evening Standard produced more newspapers than other institutions, filling the gap in the market producing 900,000 copies daily rather than 700,000. This therefore increased the circulation as the rest of the newspaper industries printed less in order to meet other demands.
I do not think the newspaper industry will die out in the near future as I believe that newspapers are traditional media that are valued by a lot of individuals, especially the elder generation. I think that being able to sell the newspapers directly to audiences would enable the industry to stay alive and I think that by making online content not free it will allow the newspaper industry to gain more recognition as it would be on the same wavelength as paid for news online. The quality of journalism within a newspaper is usually of a higher standard due to the vast and strenuous editing process that they undergo, therefore the value of the newspaper should not go unrecognised and audiences should realise that these papers hold much more significance and importance as instant news. However, in a generation where everything is instant, it poses a really big issue for the newspaper industry as younger audiences would prefer to have rapid, accessibly news and follow the trends of this. I personally think the industry will not die out in the near future but it is definitely struggling and will continue to struggle if online content does not go behind a paywall.
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