New Yorker Stories to Read Before the Paywall Goes Up
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#2New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for. They have some of the best journalism around (NYT for straight news, New Yorker for editorial, long-form, & culture pieces). I think New Yorker's pay wall will probably be a success. I was already prepared to pay for a subscription when the time came.
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#4Well, I hope that authors that currently publish in The New Yorker such as Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Jerome Groopman, and Malcolm Gladwell switch to a different publication such as Slate so that everyone can read their well written, very important articles about healthcare and other fields.
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#5New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for. They have some of the best journalism around (NYT for straight news, New Yorker for editorial, long-form, & culture pieces). I think New Yorker's pay wall will probably be a success. I was already prepared to pay for a subscription when the time came.
On the other side, I rarely read the New Yorker. I enjoy the occasional article that pops up here, but I wouldn't pay to read any of them. They'll lose me as a reader by going behind a paywall.
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#6I'll add my personal favorite from the last few years: "A Murder Foretold" - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/04/a-murder-foreto...
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#7New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for. They have some of the best journalism around (NYT for straight news, New Yorker for editorial, long-form, & culture pieces). I think New Yorker's pay wall will probably be a success. I was already prepared to pay for a subscription when the time came.
On the other side, I rarely read the New Yorker. I enjoy the occasional article that pops up here, but I wouldn't pay to read any of them. They'll lose me as a reader by going behind a paywall.
The pay wall isn't meant to attract people who "rarely read" the New Yorker. Those are the consumers they are OK with losing because they didn't make up an appreciable demographic for their business model anyway.
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#8New Yorker and NYT are two of the only old school media companies whose content I would still pay for. They have some of the best journalism around (NYT for straight news, New Yorker for editorial, long-form, & culture pieces). I think New Yorker's pay wall will probably be a success. I was already prepared to pay for a subscription when the time came.
I thought the same about Far Eastern Economic Review, but after they installed a paywall I stopped reading. Everyone else did too, and it has since died.
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#9Well, I hope that authors that currently publish in The New Yorker such as Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Jerome Groopman, and Malcolm Gladwell switch to a different publication such as Slate so that everyone can read their well written, very important articles about healthcare and other fields.
FWIW, it's just going to be a metered paywall, similar to the NY Times (ie "You have read 1 of your 10 free articles this week."). I for one hope that people decide their well written, very important articles are worth paying a little bit of money to support.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other side, I rarely read the New Yorker. I enjoy the occasional article that pops up here, but I wouldn't pay to read any of them. They'll lose me as a reader by going behind a paywall.
The pay wall isn't meant to attract people who "rarely read" the New Yorker. Those are the consumers they are OK with losing because they didn't make up an appreciable demographic for their business model anyway.
Readers are readers. They now have zero chance of converting me into a paying subscriber, since I can't read their articles. With a more flexible paywall, I can be encouraged to subscribe every time I'm linked to an article.