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Maybe, maybe not. Tim Graham might be a guy they would want. Your second sentence doesn't make a lot of sense. Maybe intelligent people want to read intelligently written pieces? Not sure why people who want to read quality pieces would be disparaged. If I hired a professionally trained journalist and paid them a living wage, then yes. However, that is not going to happen. They have to hit that sweet spot that collects the most subscriptions with the least amount of overhead. Once you build a beast, you have to feed a beast. Best to stay lean. 20,000k subscribers paying $5 month is $1.2M a year in one city with a few writers is a lot of money as long as you aren't paying a full support staff.

Why the Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/sports/the-athletic-newspapers.html Interesting to note that the Toronto site has 15,000 subscribers and is breaking even. As I have mentioned before, we will eventually have to pay for quality.

There are a lot of people that won't get this reference.

That many articles submitted to TBD.

It's all done by hand by the human aggregation machine: GoBillsinDallas. 81,000 of them.

Read more. Post less. I have probably stated it a half a dozen times in a half a dozen ways in this thread. The idea is so incredibly !@#$ing stupid it's hard to keep answering these ignorant accusations. I could not even get a handful of FREE subscriptions to hand out to complaining readers. Not a single one. I literally could not get them to give me something at no cost to them, let alone have them pay me. I am blessed to be comfortably upper middle class. Whatever business model you knuckleheads could possibly come up with, I can assure you it would have absolutely no bearing on my life in anyway shape or form. Not even a little bit.

Literally, at this very moment. You just can't fake this kind of stupid.

I wouldn't doubt Josh uses her job change as a recruiting tool. "People who work here can move on to larger markets..."

Poor white men. How will we ever get by?

Poor white men. How will we ever get by?

The people who claim they would never pay $3 a month for a garbage product like the Buffalo News also accuse me of raking in the kickbacks on the same garbage product costing less than a cafeteria brownie. As soon as I roll these new found nickels up, I'm telling ya - Golden Corral here I come!

There are few. This is the best one I've seen: Courier-Express: The Final Days

I did... Concrete and Gold.

Ask Jeeves here I come!

A paper like the New York Times might get $7-8 per 1000 page views. Most local papers don't have that pull. Those payout rates keep dropping. That's why many have given up chasing pennies. They used to be nickels. So, it's just math. How many subscribers do you need to make up for the large drop in advertiser revenue. I think someone posted that the Washington Post did a study and said they would lose 82% of their readership and they still went subscription based.

The industry tried the free model for 15 years. The trend is go back to subscriptions. Like I mentioned earlier, you would need to read 1000 articles in one month for them to earn the $3 in a subscription.

LOL. You are both nuts. There is no local newspaper editor in the world that would look down upon such a move from a local paper to one of the biggest papers in the world.

Given that I have already said I am looking at this option when this thread started early this morning uhhhhh, thanks for the suggestion?

Would you like a refund?

You can stop posting your opinion on this matter. Repeating it will not make it happen.

and just to educate yourself while sitting on the Mount... The Buffalo News probably makes $3 for every 1,000 articles you read. ONE-THOUSAND ARTICLES. One subscriber replaces a HELL of alot of free readers.

Given that you have no idea what my daily traffic is, I'm just going to say I hope you enjoy the view from top of the Mount. And once again, people who subscribe to the BN deserve to have their news aggregated just as much as anyone else.

Yeah. One of the top newspapers in the world. Why would any journalist want to work there?

This is literally a subforum at the top of this one that is cleverly titled: Two Bills Drive RedesignCommunity based feedback on design direction of the site... I couldn't be more transparent with it if I wanted to.

LOL. I've been doing this since 1996. 21 years. I think I have a decent grasp of the situation. But no - I have not ever received a dime from the Buffalo News. People who suggest this are effing nuts. They get $3 a month for a subscriber - what do you think they are actually going to give me? Answer: not enough to care. I'm happy they are still in business. Journalism is important stuff. Maybe not sports journalism, but real newspapers with professional journalists are critical to our society. Support them.