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CNN Plans to Paywall News Content Starting Next Month
The Wrap vis Yahoo News ^ | September 26, 2024 | Josh Dickey

Posted on 09/26/2024 4:41:55 PM PDT by Robwin

CNN will introduce a “metered” paywall early next month for online readers, part of a broader plan by chairman/CEO Mark Thompson to restructure the news giant into profitability.

The plan was first reported Thursday by the New York Times. A CNN spokesperson declined to comment.

The metered paywall will require frequent users to pay for access after clicking on a set number of articles. The model is common among major news outlets, including the New York Times and the New Yorker.

CNN first hinted at the plan in July, when it said it would be launching a digital subscription service as a part of a restructuring that included the layoffs of some 100 staffers. Details were not disclosed, but sources who spoke with the Times indicated CNN will start with a low-cost option.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cnn; paywall; xinn
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Nice to know CNN is hurting financially, but I'm not sure I am all that keen to pay for its lies and misrepresentations.
1 posted on 09/26/2024 4:41:55 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Robwin

I don’t read it free.


2 posted on 09/26/2024 4:42:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Robwin

They’re dead, Jim.


3 posted on 09/26/2024 4:43:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Robwin

anyone who has cable tv already does


4 posted on 09/26/2024 4:43:41 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Robwin

Just go into your cache and delete all the CNN cookies. Then, keep reading, if you must, for free.

OTOH, I don’t read CNN so no biggie.


5 posted on 09/26/2024 4:45:15 PM PDT by Jemian (There is tough. And then, there is TRUMP TOUGH!)
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To: Robwin

didn’t they go down this route when they brought chris wallace over and it failed?


6 posted on 09/26/2024 4:45:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Robwin

If they actually had news to report, I might pay for them, but they don’t.


7 posted on 09/26/2024 4:45:59 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,525,799 Truth | 87,979,589 Twitter)
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To: Robwin

Didn’t they try something similar before?


8 posted on 09/26/2024 4:47:17 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who is CNN?:)


9 posted on 09/26/2024 4:47:21 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: ifinnegan

That will work out welll


10 posted on 09/26/2024 4:47:36 PM PDT by blitz128
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Lololololol…pay for that tripe?😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫


11 posted on 09/26/2024 4:49:02 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Robwin

If they are struggling when they give it away, what happens when they make someone pay for it?


12 posted on 09/26/2024 4:49:31 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Robwin

I didn’t know there was a market for lies, distortions and obfuscations.............


13 posted on 09/26/2024 4:50:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Robwin

Wake me when they start paying viewers to watch.


14 posted on 09/26/2024 4:51:23 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Robwin

Who in their right mind would pay for biased news? I quit reading my hometown paper online because they paywalled it.


15 posted on 09/26/2024 4:52:17 PM PDT by Shamrock-DW
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“CNN Plans to Paywall News Content”

CNN will almost certainly learn what people REALLY think of their ‘reporting’. Pass me some popcorn please.


16 posted on 09/26/2024 4:52:32 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Robwin

I don’t click on CNN articles anywhere else or links if their articles are posted here.


17 posted on 09/26/2024 4:52:40 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Robwin

I thought they were only viewable in airport waiting rooms.


18 posted on 09/26/2024 4:53:18 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Robwin

I still remember the good old days when Leftist lies were free.


19 posted on 09/26/2024 4:57:11 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ifinnegan

The Minneapolis Star & Tribune tried a paywall for a few years at least with many articles with some freebies thrown in but it now looks like no paywall at all.
https://www.startribune.com

If they would tell the truth they would be making money.


20 posted on 09/26/2024 4:58:28 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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