Monday, February 9, 2009

Steven Brills' plan to save the NY Times, and journalism itself

That's the gist of a memo written by the founder of Court TV and published by Jim Romanesko's blog. The plan, boiled down to a Twitter post, Start charging for content; if you offer it free, then readers think it's not worth anything.

Meanwhile, new media folks are responding. Typical is Wendy Davis of MediaPost.com who says Brill's plan won't work for a number of reasons. She accuses old media of being inflexible while showing the inflexibility of new media.

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