Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
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#2"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging."
Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
Re: Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy
#3"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
Clever way of demonstrating the separation between reporting and finances, I think.
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#4"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
Snark toward the suits, taken to an art form. I love it.
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#5"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
I used to work at Reuters (last century) - in technology, but had occasional contact with the news side. They would treat it as a badge of honour to be the first to publish stories about Reuters - however embarrassing. There was no possibility of interference by management.
I don't know if that's the case now or how many other publishers would live by those rules.
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#6"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
A tangent, but
I love that the wikipedia article on Humans is in 3rd Person
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
Reads like some alien civilization documenting us.
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#7"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
Not at all unusual for [formerly?] serious news organizations. Most of the navel gazing at the NYT is in the third person, for example.
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#8"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging." Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
A tangent, but I love that the wikipedia article on Humans is in 3rd Person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human Reads like some alien civilization documenting us.
> ... and with humans solely on the Moon, two at a time for brief intervals between 1969 and 1972.
Their slapdown about our presence on the moon is brutal!
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#9This reduces the number of reliable and reasonably neutral news sources accessible to the majority of people, which is a bad thing.
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#10Already switched to getting most of my news from AP so no big loss I guess.