By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. After that, readers, who must sign up with a credit card, pay 27 cents per story, billed at the end of each month, up to the full price of an online subscription, which is $16.99. Not only that, Cox noticed that the most avid online readers were people who had let their print subscriptions lapse. Unlike larger national or international media organizations, the Freep's readership is too small to subsist on online advertising revenues alone. The Winnipeg Free Press thinks it is ideally placed to revive the system for online newspapers. The Winnipeg Free Press, one of the last papers in Canada not to be part of a national chain, began publishing 143 years ago. When Cox attends international media conferences, he faces crowds of interested questioners. How does the system work? In theory, the best and most essential journalism would be rewarded with more and larger payments. After a free trial period of one month, anyone interested in reading the Free Press has two choices. As print subscriptions and ad revenue decline, Winnipeg Free Press publisher Bob Cox is trying a radical experiment to cover the cost of independent journalism.ĭon Pittis has been a Fuller Brush man, a forest fire fighter and an Arctic ranger before discovering journalism.
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