500 Online Journals May Charge for Content

14 Aug 09 Media Age

JOURNALISM ONLINE, a company founded in April by several media bigwigs, claims to have signed up more than 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide for its online payment scheme. They plan to provide publishers with various ways to charge for content including monthly subscriptions and pay-per-article. Co-founder, Steven Brill of American Lawyer magazine was quoted as saying, “By creating a platform of flexible hybrid models for paid content that maximizes online advertising revenue while creating a new revenue stream from readers, Journalism Online has helped shift the debate over charging for online news from if to when and how.”

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