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• 4/20/2009 8:35 PM Michael Pope wrote:
  The value of newspapers is that they offer news on a wide range of topics on a wide range of levels, such as local, national, and world. Additionally, newspapers include entertainment, such as comics, crossword puzzles, and horoscopes, as well as classifieds and advertisements. With news being offered on the Internet for free, and the creation of services such as Craigslist, newspapers are losing what makes them unique.
  Now, the only value of the newspaper is its physical nature. People can be fold newspapers, rip them, carry them everywhere, and write on them. None of these can be achieved with the digital version unless printed out. Also, one other value newspapers have over their digital copies is that no special equipment is needed to view it. One does not need a cumbersome laptop or a small, hard to read iPhone to read the paper – one just needs the paper itself.
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• 4/27/2009 5:20 PM Mary Effler wrote:
  As I said in class, I would probably pay for the manner in which it's presented...like pay 10 bucks for the aggregator software to make it easier to recieve my news. It's more about the convenience, since I can find the news myself, it would just save me time.
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• 4/27/2009 5:20 PM Michael Webber wrote:
  I wouldn't pay for news.
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• 4/27/2009 5:20 PM Cassie Rice wrote:
  I would not pay for teh news for the simple fact that what i need to know i find out from others. I do not seek out the news so why would i pay for it.
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• 4/27/2009 5:21 PM Whitney Carr wrote:
  I'd pay for audio/video information that is organized by what is popular plus nich thing that i may be interested in.
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• 4/27/2009 5:24 PM Evan Liaw wrote:
  I doubt that there is any kind of news I would pay for...though I wouldn't completely eliminate that possibility. My main reasoning is information is so widely available today I really feel there is no need to pay for it. So for me the big question is...why pay when I can find the same thing elsewhere for free. Which leads to another question...what can newspapers offer me that I can't get anywhere else that they can charge me for. However, I think for the most part there is no reason for me to pay for the news as really the news that is available for free is more than enough to satisfy my personal need of staying informed.
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• 4/27/2009 5:25 PM Brian Wheeler wrote:
  I would not pay for news. Im not all too interested in the news to pay for it. When I do read it, its because of a headline I see that peaks my interest. Or if I am curious about something and its in a news article. I may see or hear a promo for a story to be shown later on the news broadcast and I may watch it. News isnt really something I feel like I need to pay for.
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• 4/27/2009 5:25 PM daniel whitfield wrote:
  With the availability of free news, there's not really any need to actually pay for news anymore. the only reason would be to support local economy further. most internet users already pay a fee to the ISP's to access the internet in the first place, so it would make sense that a user would take as much advantage as possible to continue using the resources now available at their fingertips.
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• 4/27/2009 5:25 PM Kao Te Hsu wrote:
  I will pay for video game information. I used to buy game magazine in Chinese, but they are just to expensive right here. For newspaper, I only buy it for the big sale on black Friday.
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• 4/27/2009 5:27 PM Sara Safa wrote:
  What would I pay for? I personally prefer not to pay for something as long as I can get that for free. When it comes to news, I just get them from friends and websites without paying for it. Same thing for music.... I rather download the music to my iPod than pay for it. I know that doesn't sound fair to journalists and artists, but if its available for free, why would I even care to pay?!
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• 4/27/2009 5:28 PM David Seltzer wrote:
  To be honest, I personally would pay to receive news content, which is why I don't pay for a newspaper. I also don't pay for websites that have "insider" content, such as ESPN and IGN. I could possibly see myself paying for something like an iPhone app for a particular news feed, but only if it was a specific news feed that I read a lot of, and it was reasonably priced (no more than a couple dollars), or it came with extra content, such as sodoku, comics, etc. I wouldn't mind paying for convenience in that sense.
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• 4/27/2009 5:28 PM Shantia Grimes wrote:
  I would be willing to pay for news related to the entertainment industry. This would be focused on the 3D aspect of the game and movie industries. Specifically, I would want information on the industry jobs that are available and in demand and how the industry is surviving. To have this information in a single place that I could access it would be great.
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• 4/27/2009 5:28 PM Nicki Paris wrote:
  I'm not so sure I would pay for news. With such a plethora of readily available information on the internet and cable, it's hard to say that I would want to dedicate more of my income to a news source. While I think reliable news is important, I also think that crossreferencing multiple sources can help determine authenticity.
  It's also a matter of being a college student with extremely limited funds. I would sooner get my information from a free site so I don't have another bill. If I did have the funding, I would probably pay no more than $30-40 a month for reliable, well-written, and well organized news. But, like I said, I don't.
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• 4/27/2009 5:28 PM Amanda May wrote:
  What would you pay for and why?
  
  -The future of our well being is something that I would be willing to pay for, global news. I find events and stories that effect the United States or our government very important. Celebrity news and local stories are not something that I would be willing to pay for, its more like gossip. Anything that effects me directly (or could) is important.
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• 4/27/2009 5:29 PM Jason wrote:
  What am I willing to pay for... I'll pay for specialized magazines with detailed information about the things I'm interested in, but as far as general local or global news, I get all the information I need or want from friends and the occasional television broadcast or online feed. I'll sometimes pay for specialized tutorials or information that will benefit me financially or professionally, also. That's about it.
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• 4/27/2009 5:30 PM Josh Dillingham wrote:
  I would probably pay for information if it was reliable and unbiased. It would also have to be reasonably priced, maybe a one time payment type thing that would be delivered electronically. Even then I don't know if I would find it beneficial to my everyday life.
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• 4/27/2009 5:34 PM Jett Sarrett wrote:
  I would be willing to pay for news related towards my major or job, maybe news in a tutorial form that helps me get better or teaches me certain tricks... global news i just cannot think of 1 scenario where i would be willing to pay for it, reading it isn't apart of my everyday life, and when i do read news i can find what i want easily online for free.
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• 4/27/2009 5:35 PM Perry wrote:
  I would pay a subscription for someone to send me the news that is actually relevant. Not just a blind RSS feed but information that is important to what I need. But also the information that would inspire me. Interior decorating Architecture Design Operas Fashion Technology etc. My father does this at the moment but I would pay for a personal assistant who filters all of the information out there and then filter the content further so that I wouldn't have to spend too much resources on processing.
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• 4/27/2009 5:36 PM Garrett Martin wrote:
  Well, I don't think I would ever pay for news. Maybe if there was something just absolutely extraordinary then I would pay, but I can't really imagine anything that would motivate me to pay for my news, when there are so many "free" news sources out there now.
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• 4/27/2009 5:40 PM Karyne Nguyen wrote:
  Talking about our projects in class and having Dan reiterate the questions we need to answer of what is the information we need, where, and how was a really helpful way to think of our spin on the newspaper industry in a new perspective. I've never really thought about how or others I know get news, so considering that brought new points to consider. For example, I have a friend who hates watching the news on television, especially sad and depressing stories; on the other hand, she loves visiting entertainment and gossip blogs and it's safe to say that that is what she considers news. On this note, something important to consider is what people consider news nowadays, since the blogging industry is what a lot of people turn to.
  I was also reminded me of what news is, during the discussion, as I thought of how I visit a social message board and there are always news links at the top, mainly entertainment-related; one time, there was a post about how the body of the missing teen girl in Aruba, Natalee Holloway, was found [and it was obviously not true, her father had just sent a team back to Aruba to search, and it evolved into that rumor] and I automatically believed it, even though it was just a message board. The amount of rapport people have with a certain medium, whether it is television, Internet, or paper newspapers, the more apt and drawn they will be to that outlet they are comfortable with.
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• 4/27/2009 5:59 PM Alyssa Lee wrote:
  The only news source I would be willing to pay for would be a physical paper. The reason being it cost money to print (paper and ink), thus I should have to pay for the medium.
  
  Since news sources such as the internet do not require the use of extra resources, I would not be willing to pay for such sources.
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• 4/27/2009 7:21 PM Albert Almanza wrote:
  Personally, I would not pay for the news. There are lots of different places to get your news that you don't have to pay for. However, I would still pay for a newspaper because there is more to a newspaper than just the news. A crossword, a sudoku, comics, movie times, memories locked on a page. However, with little time to do such things, I rarely do buy a paper. So, I like buying the extras in the newspaper if I have the time to sit and do them. Reading the news is a plus. However, I rarely have the opportunity or the money to buy a paper, so I rarely will.
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• 4/27/2009 7:51 PM Kiran Sorathia wrote:
  I would rather not pay for my news, since I'm so used to having it available to me for free. On top of that reason, I rarely have the time to indulge in paper news, so it would be a waste of money to me in that regards.
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• 4/27/2009 10:03 PM Michael Pope wrote:
  If there was only one way to get the news and I had to pay for it, I would pay for topics that interest me, like sci-fi tv/movie news, science and technology, and maybe national news. However, with science and technology, I would only want the to read about important breakthroughs or science-fiction-like technologies. With national news, I would only get it if it was about something very important and/or something that affected me. Also, one more thing that would influence whether or not I bought the news is price. If each article, assuming each article is lengthy and well-written, cost more than a dime, I probably would not buy any.
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• 4/27/2009 10:40 PM Robert Reynolds wrote:
  Personally, I wouldn't spend money on general news when it's so readily available for free in so many different places and formats. I MIGHT pay for news if I trusted the source to be completely unbiased, but even that I can't say for certain.
  
  But what I would pay for is news in very specific areas of interest to me. People don't seem to have any problem paying for magazine subscriptions, which is basically news targeted at a very specific audience. I also don't mind paying for entertainment. Whether its a small game or puzzle, or even a novel. Newspapers could incorporate these things into their printed papers to increase subscriber base.
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• 4/27/2009 10:42 PM Isaac Murray wrote:
  One of the issues with modern internet business is how to drive the viewer to actually pay for content. I personally do not have any desire to pay any news since there are so many venues for free news. I do see a possible market in the way news is collected and delivered to the viewer. iTunes has done a great job with the "Genius Bar" which is a derivative of the music genome project. This use of creative meta-based content creation is the type of professional data searching that I think we will se more of in the near future. The news industry could benefit from finding ways to provided high end human based search results for articles people would want to read. Data aggregation and distribution are some of the avenues that might be profitable.
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• 4/28/2009 7:43 AM Jennifer McKeown wrote:
  News wise, I would pay for local news and information.
  
  Global and national news (if it is important and worth knowing about) has a way of trickling down the pipeline and getting to me through friends, co-workers, and family.
  
  I always seem to lack sources of local news for cities around DFW, though. Local news stations are fine and all, but they don't ever go in-depth so I'm left feeling I only got a piece of the story.
  
  So, because of that, I'm willing to pay for local news.
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• 4/28/2009 10:48 PM Jonathan Castaneda wrote:
  I wouldn't pay for news for the most part. I really care about niche topics that are already pretty unbiased as it is, worldly/local news can definitely present two viewpoints on the situation, none that I particularly agree with. If news was neutral, thought-provoking then yes, I might pay a small sum to get that kind of input.
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• 4/29/2009 10:34 PM Jacqueline Justice wrote:
  I would not pay for the news. It generally ends up being the media feeding me information I have little interest in knowing. Why pay for news I am not interested in when I can find news on the things I want to know about for free?
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• 4/30/2009 10:21 AM Wes Phelan wrote:
  I would pay for news, if it was cheap, if it was balanced completely and gave all the facts, completely customizable to all of my interests and robust about those interests. I don't know if a news source will ever truly fulfill these needs though.
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