"The answer is not paid or free, the answer is this messy, leaky mix, with some people paying who…"

January 04 Comments Off on "The answer is not paid or free, the answer is this messy, leaky mix, with some people paying who…" Category: Feed, Tumblr

“The answer is not paid or free, the answer is this messy, leaky mix, with some people paying who read it a lot and others not paying anything at all.” – David Carr talks to Andrew Sullivan on new media’s new Darwinism – NYTimes.com (via thisist…

Bad news for fans of The War Room with Jennifer Granholm, The Young Turks, and Joy Behar…Good news for fans of Al-Jazeera English

January 04 Comments Off on Bad news for fans of The War Room with Jennifer Granholm, The Young Turks, and Joy Behar…Good news for fans of Al-Jazeera English Category: Feed, Tumblr

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Al-Jazeera has acquired Current TV, Al Gore confirmed Wednesday – @AP

Update: Time Warner, the 2nd biggest US cable company, to drop Current TV following acquisition by al-Jazeera – @BBCNews

Al Jazeera plans to shut do…

Sullivan’s Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In Six Hours

January 04 Comments Off on Sullivan’s Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In Six Hours Category: Feed, Tumblr

Sullivan’s Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In Six Hours: shortformblog:

parislemon:

And I’ll repeat: if you provide value to people, they’ll pay for it.
Awesome.

Whether this is the way to go for the industry at large, you have t…

"If this model works, we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be…"

January 03 Comments Off on "If this model works, we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be…" Category: Feed, Tumblr

“If this model works, we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be paid directly by readers, and that an independent site, if tended to diligently, can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely.

The…