Comments on: Online Journalism: It’s All Been Said Before http://www.webgrrls.com/blog/2009/09/14/online-journalism-its-all-been-said-before/ Insight, Information and Inspiration on women's careers, business, technology and the Industry. Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:31:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tekla Szymanski http://www.webgrrls.com/blog/2009/09/14/online-journalism-its-all-been-said-before/#comment-1663 Tekla Szymanski Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:16:50 +0000 http://www.webgrrls.com/blog/2009/09/14/online-journalism-its-all-been-said-before/#comment-1663 I agree. But you've missed one important additional point: "Online journalism is here to stay; and no one wants to pay for it." True. But consequently, very soon, too many journalists, who are expected to provide online content for free (or almost free), will be so impoverished that they'll need to switch professions. We need to realize that good content providers and web editors need to pay the rent. Many online news portals want revenue and fresh content but are not yet willing to pay their content providers adequately. Sure, print is struggling. No wonder: They pay salaries. Online can not give away content for free for long, because soon they won't have any professionals left who can afford writing for them. I agree. But you’ve missed one important additional point: “Online journalism is here to stay; and no one wants to pay for it.” True. But consequently, very soon, too many journalists, who are expected to provide online content for free (or almost free), will be so impoverished that they’ll need to switch professions. We need to realize that good content providers and web editors need to pay the rent.

Many online news portals want revenue and fresh content but are not yet willing to pay their content providers adequately. Sure, print is struggling. No wonder: They pay salaries. Online can not give away content for free for long, because soon they won’t have any professionals left who can afford writing for them.

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