CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time
Source: CNN
CNN, one of the most popular news websites in the world, is starting to ask some of its visitors to pay $3.99 a month for access.
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Starting today, we are asking users in the United States to pay a small recurring fee for unlimited access to CNN.coms world-class articles, Alex MacCallum, CNNs executive vice president of digital products and services, wrote in a memo outlining the plan.
The average visitor to CNNs website, who may only read a few articles a month, will not be prompted to pay at this time. Only after users consume a certain number of free articles will they be prompted to subscribe, MacCallum explained. In addition to unlimited access to CNN.coms articles, subscribers will receive benefits like exclusive election features, original documentaries, a curated daily selection of our most distinctive journalism, and fewer digital ads.
MacCallum and her boss Mark Thompson, the chairman and chief executive of CNN, are both veterans of The New York Times, which is widely envied in the news business for its success in converting online readers and gamers into paying subscribers.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/media/cnn-launch-digital-subscription-paywall/index.html
jimfields33
(18,261 posts)day that passes. In ten years, well probably have to pay for every site we visit.
dchill
(39,925 posts)jimfields33
(18,261 posts)Dennis Donovan
(23,378 posts)They sell ads on their network as well as their website. That should be enough. They're getting greedy.
thesquanderer
(12,265 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,941 posts)across the internet, which is why DU asked for monthly payments.
Happy Hoosier
(8,230 posts)Not a chance I'll pay CNN to read their facile crap.
PortTack
(34,117 posts)dchill
(39,925 posts)You really are too nice!
MichMan
(12,833 posts)Kind of like when we boycott some place we never go to anyway.
Good! That will make them even more irrelevant
Jacson6
(594 posts)I think very few people actually use the CNN pop up spam ad web site anyway.
iemanja
(54,276 posts)They aren't a newspaper with limited revenue. I don't think this will work out for them.
bigmonk
(80 posts)Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ...
No. Wait. You're serious!
HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA!!!!
ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,849 posts)Yeah, he was a great philosopher
Dave Bowman
(3,268 posts)wolfie001
(3,222 posts)No thanks
p.s.: Debate shitshow
IronLionZion
(46,783 posts)lots of viewers look at CNN because it's free, not because of the quality of their reporting.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,849 posts)GFYCNN
kimbutgar
(22,702 posts)But I do like Anderson Cooper
mdbl
(5,263 posts)Even Fux isn't that bold.
moonshinegnomie
(2,847 posts)slim and none and slim has left the building
dalton99a
(83,530 posts)Biglinda 52
(66 posts)if the journalism was worth paying for.
BaronChocula
(2,283 posts)"MAKE MORE MONEY!"
I totally hope this is a bust.
Pas-de-Calais
(9,974 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(4,211 posts)* and AARP online magazine.
CNN can kiss my ass. ----- I wonder if they'll stop posting videos on Youtube.
Lovie777
(14,258 posts)bucolic_frolic
(46,137 posts)Dave Bowman
(3,268 posts)Mosby
(17,109 posts)onandup
(659 posts)Just go here and put in the link of the article
https://archive.ph/
usonian
(12,658 posts)WHICH WILL ALWAYS BE FREE.
The Digital Divide grows wider every day.
Do you remember when cable TV was going to be ad-free, because you paid for it?
No matter what people claim, they will go to a pay-me and subscribe model.
PAY ME
Basso8vb
(133 posts)When I stopped watching or paying attention to CNN in 2003?
totodeinhere
(13,224 posts)Bengus81
(7,312 posts)town hall. Fake questions,fake audience...everything FAKED by CNN.
FUCK YOU ASSHATS!!