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CNN announcing they are going to paywall their website shortly. $4/month (USD) required for access to articles beyond the first three or four free ones.

Not many "free" large scale news providers are left anymore. I wonder who else in Canada will go down this road. Imagine CP24 saying you have to pay?
 
Jonny5 said:
CNN announcing they are going to paywall their website shortly. $4/month (USD) required for access to articles beyond the first three or four free ones.

Not many "free" large scale news providers are left anymore. I wonder who else in Canada will go down this road. Imagine CP24 saying you have to pay?
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What a joke. I guess I'll go somewhere else for news then!
 
Towered said:
What a joke. I guess I'll go somewhere else for news then!
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Apparently it will start only for US-based IP addresses. But they will be rolling it out to the rest of the world at some point.
 
Towered said:
What a joke. I guess I'll go somewhere else for news then!
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I'm not sure I'd call it a joke. Their model was based on cable subscriptions which provided the resources to allow for a pay-wall free site for everyone, regardless if they subscribed or not. Everything about that model is now different, so I can't say I'm surprised. I just wonder if they will allow those that subscribe via their BDU to also have the website pay-wall free.
 
JasonParis said:
I'm not sure I'd call it a joke. Their model was based on cable subscriptions which provided the resources to allow for a pay-wall free site for everyone, regardless if they subscribed or not. Everything about that model is now different, so I can't say I'm surprised. I just wonder if they will allow those that subscribe via their BDU to also have the website pay-wall free.
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Agree. You want quality journalism, you have to be ready to pay for it. Something free is valued exactly what you paid for it.
 
lenaitch said:
Agree. You want quality journalism, you have to be ready to pay for it. Something free is valued exactly what you paid for it.
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I'm not sure I would have ever considered CNN to be quality journalism; merely quantity journalism.

No media outlet is perfect, all have had scandals, but when you think of baseline quality, in the Anglosphere, I would suggest BBC would tend to rate well and it is nominally free, though paid for by a TV Tax in the UK. The NYT has been comparatively pay walled for sometime, though you can access a limited amount of free content via Google.
 
Northern Light said:
I'm not sure I would have ever considered CNN to be quality journalism; merely quantity journalism.

No media outlet is perfect, all have had scandals, but when you think of baseline quality, in the Anglosphere, I would suggest BBC would tend to rate well and it is nominally free, though paid for by a TV Tax in the UK. The NYT has been comparatively pay walled for sometime, though you can access a limited amount of free content via Google.
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Whether a source is quality, quantity or even professional journalism is subjective and, particularly but not exclusively in the US, depends on one's political stripe.

Actual professional journalism - theoretically anyway - reports on and provides analysis for events. It is separate from columnists and opinionists. All of the major sources used to have a staff of professional reporters, often stationed around the world, working within a journalistic standard (we might not like the standard, but at least there was on). Contrast that to today where many people get their information from social media and online news aggregators who pretty much lift the words and efforts of others. That and opinionists masquerading as journalists.
 
Northern Light said:
I'm not sure I would have ever considered CNN to be quality journalism; merely quantity journalism.

No media outlet is perfect, all have had scandals, but when you think of baseline quality, in the Anglosphere, I would suggest BBC would tend to rate well and it is nominally free, though paid for by a TV Tax in the UK. The NYT has been comparatively pay walled for sometime, though you can access a limited amount of free content via Google.
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It's a little known fact that the largest English news organisation in the world is now Bloomberg, which is completely paywalled, though if you work for a financial institution of any type they probably have a group subscription that you can use for free.
They cover basically everything now except sports and food/restaurants.
 
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Rumours today that Bell has put TSN up for sale and essentially wants out of the media and broadcasting business entirely to refocus on telecom/internet.
This matches up with their recent sale of the stake in Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment.
Also Rogers may finally shutter all its sports radio stations and complete a transition to podcasts.

Major Changes Coming to Canadian Sports Media Landscape? - YYZsportsmedia

Bell Canada and Rogers both planning major changes in sports media altering the landcape with sale of TSN and change to Fan 590
yyzsportsmedia.com yyzsportsmedia.com

TSN is 30% owned by ESPN so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

Also interesting stat in there is that the recent Monday Leafs/Blackhawks game which Rogers sold to Amazon Prime had a streaming viewership of almost one million. Far above what Rogers would draw on TV on Sportsnet on a Monday.
 
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Travis Dhanraj seems to have left CBC. His evening show on News Network no longer mentions him. Too bad, hope he is ok
 
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