The future of journalism hopefully includes journalists getting paid…

More and more people are accessing their news online. If you are a news fiend, the internet is rather addictive. You can read all the newspapers of the world and never leave your chair. You can listen to radio stations on the other side of the globe right from your home. You can access all sorts of different kinds of media, within seconds.

It is easy to understand why so many people turn to the Internet for their news. One problem though, is that people don’t like paying for information online. If things continue as they are I don’t see a positive future merger between journalists and the web.

Don’t people realize that journalists work really hard and deserve to get paid?

I agree with Bill Gates on this one.

“I hope that readers will be willing to pay subscriptions or watch ads or things that will keep the high quality and breadth of journalism alive and (make it) even better than it is today,” Gates said. “In some ways, we have better journalism today… (With) in-depth, certain kinds of journalism…there’s still a question of how that gets funded.

This is an interesting BBC video, it shows in how many ways news can be accessed online and how it reaches people.

I think over time people will realize that if they want good news online, they may have to pay for it.

April 8, 2008. Uncategorized.