Task:
1. Look at all of the UK news titles and research how the paywall is being used in an attempt to protect revenue and profits for these companies.
Many newspaper companies have stopped printing due to the cost. Many people now get all their news from online sources. Due to this many newspapers no have a pay wall on their online articles meaning people pay to read the news online. The more popular newspapers can afford to take of there paywall as they have ad's on their websites anyway, whereas the smaller less known newspapers need the money from the paywall as they don't have as many readers. Here are some newspaper sites that do or don't have paywalls:
Does:
Daily Telegraph
The Times
Dosent:
The Guardian- but has the option to pay subscription to support them
Daily Mail
The Sun
Daily mirror
Metro
The Independant
Daily Express
2. How do newspapers prompt readers to interact with their online news? Consider how they use social media to encourage reader participation.
3. Consider how you could apply Shirky's End of Audience Theories to online news products.
Publish your findings on to your blog.
