{"id":7619,"date":"2018-11-14T14:35:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7619"},"modified":"2018-11-14T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:35:22","slug":"so-some-people-will-pay-for-a-subscription-to-a-news-site-how-about-two-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/so-some-people-will-pay-for-a-subscription-to-a-news-site-how-about-two-three\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So some people will pay for a subscription to a news site. How about two? Three?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1835,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.niemanlab.org\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/so-some-people-will-pay-for-a-subscription-to-a-news-site-how-about-two-three&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250213235420\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.niemanlab.org\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/so-some-people-will-pay-for-a-subscription-to-a-news-site-how-about-two-three\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 21:39:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-14 19:03:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-25 22:23:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 17:42:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22 06:40:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 02:31:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-09 17:42:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 06:35:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 03:03:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:11:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:11:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2018\/11\/so-some-people-will-pay-for-a-subscription-to-a-news-site-how-about-two-three\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via NiemanLab<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>But only 16 percent of Americans say they are willing to pay for any online news. If someone\u2019s first digital subscription is to the Times or the Post \u2014 how many are willing to pay for a second, or a third, or a fourth news site? Especially if that second or third site costs as much or more than their favorite national daily?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To frame it another way: There\u2019s a segment of the population that can grudgingly be convinced to pay for a news site, out of some mix of consumer reward, civic duty, and peer pressure. But that second or third subscription requires a level of devotion that can be hard to sustain in a digital environment where the links come at you from every direction.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News shouldn\u2019t be free but the access to content means if you can\u2019t afford $250 a month for newspaper access, you\u2019re going to rely more on social media for your news.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via NiemanLab: But only 16 percent of Americans say they are willing to pay for any online news.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-14T14:35:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"66ca98d5-8128-4f42-ae53-da73bee12019","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-14T14:35:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZsqY1YEoT0KuU9pzvuEgGQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1YT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6897,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/linked-netflixs-dvd-subscription-is-still-great-dammit\/","url_meta":{"origin":7619,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Netflix\u2019s DVD Subscription Is Still Great, Dammit&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Medium: I pay for cable and Netflix. 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