For a brief 15yr period, journalism experimented with free distribution which this supposedly thoughtful VC extrapolates into the source newspapers’ influence. Papers were never free. Influence came from the free electronic media picking up and repeating stories. #themoreyouknowhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1219913828030394368 …
Sure papers were free. You could hand someone a copy of a newspaper you'd bought and say "you have to read this article," and they could read it without paying anything. Happened constantly.
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You may have identified a new way for pubs to expand their influence (& topline)—premium memberships that allow a subscriber to a share an article once or twice w/ others.
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Assuming they don’t mess it up by exploiting the shared contact info and violating privacy.
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Circulation vs readership. I worked at a small newspaper back in the 1990s, and we always quoted readership when selling advertising space. How did we know what our readership was? We relied on companies dedicated to researching readership.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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