Monday, July 09, 2012

Payne on whether USA Today will erect a paywall

"The current plan is to stay with an 
ad-supported model."

-- Chief Digital Officer David Payne, speaking to MediaPost for a recent story about USA Today's plans for mobile devices. Much of the rest of Gannett's newspapers are now switching to paywalls.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/10/2012 12:27 AM

    Exactly what does this guy do all day? Is this an actual job?

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  2. Anonymous7/10/2012 8:07 AM

    He does PR, which is the primary requirement of any SVP or C-fillinpositionhere-O.

    Any competence in the actual job is strictly coincidental, and based almost entirely on lower-level employees.

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  3. Anonymous7/10/2012 8:56 AM

    Makes sense. Local news is valuable but national/world /entertainment/sports news aggregators are a dime-a-dozen. Even my fridge can post RSS feeds.

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  4. Anonymous7/10/2012 4:58 PM

    He is re-shaping our digital future.

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