But at the same time, the older newspaper model was not sustained by the virtue of publishers and the solidarity of subscribers; it was sustained by geographic monopolies that left readers and advertisers with nowhere else to go.
Arianna Huffington, for her part, believes that the online and the print newspaper model are beginning to converge: "As advertising dollars continue to move online — as they slowly but certainly are — HuffPost will be adding more and more reporting and the Times and Post model will continue with the kinds of reporting they do, but they'll do more of it originally online".
Aside from the fact that the newspaper business model is evaporating, there are few subjects more vexing for journalists and many readers of my generation than what to do about those comments.
"[We're] now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it's clear that, for many newspapers, the current model is malfunctioning," he said.
And whatever else you think of newspapers, the business model is broken".
It confirms what we have long known: the newspaper industry's business model is wrecked.
"We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content," said the News Corporation chairman, Rupert Murdoch, last week, "and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning".
"We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning," said Murdoch.
Many of the Brazilian papers that opted out of Google News will launch paywalls next year, says Carlos Fernando Lindenberg Neto, president of the Brazilian newspapers' association.The emerging business model is now the metered paywall: a few free articles entice readers, but they must pay if they want more (a model used by The Economist and the New York Times, among others).
