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Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News splitting into separate paywall sites
Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News splitting into separate paywall sites
Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan’s theory of the paywall suggests a local paper of high caliber can survive erecting a paywall.
Maybe he is right, but can two local papers survive?
It will be good to see the Inquirer and the Daily News broken out into their own websites, if only for the fact that they have very different voices. But, as Philly.com is currently an amalgam of the two, with its own original content as well, I’m curious to see what it will look like after the websites split.
Washington Post reports "a person familiar with the plans" says Washington Post considering paywall
Philadelphia newspapers CEO’s message to employees
Philadelphia newspapers CEO’s message to employees
Jim Romenesko, quoting the letter from Bob Hall, CEO at Interstate General Media, which owns Philly’s major papers:
We must produce products that reflect the needs of our readers, viewers, advertisers and future prospective customers. This is essential if we are to increase the total audience that we reach and to provide the consumer superior content, whenever, however (multi-products), and in whatever format desired. It is becoming even more important to be relevant, useful and timely via the applications that are utilized by our customers.
If Hall means what he says, and is well-informed, he’ll approach people like the folks who run Technically Media—people who are connected to what 21st-century journalism is shaping up to be.
In related news, read the response of the Newspaper Guild, as posted by Philly Mag’s Victor Fiorillo, [here][blogs.phillymag.com/the_phill...](http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2012/08/08/28-million-cuts-proposed-philadelphia-inquirer-daily-news/.)