Posted on 09/26/2024 8:09:44 AM PDT by DFG
The most-visited news website in the United States is trying out a paywall.
In early October, CNN will begin experimenting with charging some readers for digital access as part of a bid to shore up its business as cable television erodes industrywide, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.
The company is planning a so-called metered model, which will require the site’s habitual users to pay after reading a certain number of articles, the people said. Many other publishers, including The New York Times and The New Yorker, have used metered paywalls to generate subscriptions over the past decade.
The starting price of a subscription is unclear. But the two people said that CNN would start with an inexpensive offering to gauge customer demand.
A CNN spokeswoman declined to comment.
The subscription wall is one of the first major business initiatives from Mark Thompson, CNN’s chairman and chief executive, who joined the network nearly a year ago. Mr. Thompson said in a memo to employees this year that technology would allow CNN to deliver journalism that readers “will pay for” and later said that the company would try out a paywall.
Mr. Thompson is the former chief executive of The Times, where he championed a digital subscription business that now powers the company. Since joining CNN, he has hired executives to help lay the groundwork for the network’s paywall push, including Alex MacCallum, a veteran of The Times who is now CNN’s executive vice president of digital products and services.
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Why not just pay me the $5 million contract to pull the plug.
Shhhhh: Happy to do it for free, however.
Steal their stuff by overriding their paywalls.
That is perfect Karma for the Kommies.
Well, they are going to have to pay the newly hired comedians a lot more than they are paying their hosts, “journalists”, and analists.
Is there a crime, if the product being sold is knowingly false? Just asking for a friend.
“The most-visited news website in the United States...”
If true it explains why we’re in the mess we’re in.
A CNN paywall makes sense when you think about it. At the bookstore you have to pay for fiction.
What a great business strategy! Lets make people pay for what they already dont want!
How did cnnplus workout?
“Most visited website” - only because the algorithm from Gulag sends you there first.
They’re dead, Jim.
CNN has a product people don’t want to read for free so they want to start charging for it? The real problem is the way they report the news but they will never fix that because of their ideology. They just can’t get it through their heads and most of America has learned to distrust them and hates them due to their bias and lies.
I am starting a list of items that I will never buy at any price greater than zero.
1. In-line roller skates
2. A subscription or payment of any kind to CNN
Lol. What is this “CNN” they are talking about?
Next step their female anchors will be nude behind the paywall
So now I won’t have to pay to not watch it
so the communists now want to tax the proletariat and useful idiots, eh?
how very, very typical of communists
CNN would have to PAY ME a substantial amount to get me to watch their leftist propaganda network.
Sign me up!
I am ecstatic about the prospect of paying for those pearls of intellectual insight from masterminds like Brian Stelter!
CNN+ didn’t educate them enough?
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