All entries tagged: behavioral economics
Is online news just ramen noodles? What media economics research can teach us about valuing paid content
The New York Times’ announcement that it would be charging for some access to its website, starting in 2011, rekindled yet another round of debate about paywalls for online news. Beyond the practical question (will it work?) or the theoretical one (what does this mean for the Times’ notion of the “public”?), there remains another question to be untangled here — perhaps one more relevant to the smaller papers who might be thinking of following the Times’ example:
What is the underlying economic value of online news, anyway? Keep reading »
