The Day Of Reckoning Comes To The Daily
Would you look at that screen grab, no sooner had we hit on The Daily this morning when we were met with the following subscription screen showing up. Seven days to go until D-Day for The Daily. Are you going to sign up?
It will cost you 99 cents per week in the US, it’s not yet available in the UK, although the ‘best value’ deal is the $39.95 a year rate.
News Corp are hoping there are going to be a lot of subscriptions taken out in a few days time, as the free period comes to an end. They have hired over 100 journalists to write for The Daily and obviously they need some income.
I know many folk are reluctant to pay for news on the internet, but you have to remember that someone has sat down and written it and they deserve to be paid. The dark days of writing for nothing, are hopefully coming to an end and this will mean for the reader that quality will prevail.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
4 Comments
Gerard Brandon
I read with interest this article and only decided to reply when I read your comment
Ordinarily I agree that no one wants to write for nothing and there is a difference between news and opinion where everyone can write their opinion in their daily blog or tweet which is universally accepted as being personal and as such is never likely to be a paid for service.
However the idea that “The Daily” is likely to roll back free press is bordering on ludicrous. Just because 100 journalists get paid does not make me want to buy their corporate structured news output. The internet has changed the format of accessing News to where news aggregated by services from the likes of Storyful easily surpass a limited view of a few journalists looking to please everyone.
As net readers we are seeking to find subjects rather than end to end content covering the entire world of events. We link from one article to another unrelated opinion or article from another writer across the net and not confined to the utterances of a few.
I am not saying that there are not going to be subscribers, but unless it comes with a pedigree of the likes of the WSJ or NY Times it is hardly likely to draw a vast base of continuous readership following.
News International represents a dying institution, not over night, but inevitably losing market share until quality suffers through cost cutting and its circulated online and offline media news gets swallowed up by readers choice of one click away to alternatives.
By all means writers have a right to be paid. The question is who is likely to step up and pay them. The journalist world is changing and those who don’t change with it will go the way of the Dinosaurs.
Joanne Carter
Many thanks for your comments Gerard – shall we take this discussion over to our new Forums – that would be a nice place to chat. Joanne
Gerard Brandon
By all means.
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