Bill Grueskin (ex managing editor, WSJ.com) kommentoi WSJ:n maksullista strategiaa ja sitä olisiko se mahdollista muille sanomalehdille. Pointti on tässä: lukijoiden ajan & rahan arvostaminen ja lukijan sitouttaminen yhteisöön, jota ainutlaatuinen sisältö palvelee. Grieskin:
What’s missing is the more important quality: engagement. Readers’ time can be as valuable as their money – more so online, where options to flee to another news source involve clicking a mouse, not heading to the newsstand to buy a different newspaper.
What are the kinds of things readers that readers of a local news site would pay for?
How about a daily email that told them what traffic spots to avoid, or an authoritative reader-generated guide to the best and worst public schoolteachers? Or a regularly updated site that told readers how much and why local real estate listings had dropped or risen in the last few weeks, along with examples of how certain homeowners got appraisals lowered? Or innovative coverage of local government, providing sample bills every time property taxes go up and video clips of commission meetings intertwined with analysis and context? In other words, content that is truly of online, not just posted there.
