Brill: Bring Back an Old Business Model for New Media
By: adage.com
NEW YORK (Adage.com) — Steven Brill has gone public with Journalism Online, the company that he and two other media veterans are starting to help newspapers and magazines charge for their content online. That prompted a flood of interest — but also questions from all quarters in media.
Would a pay wall restricting access to some newspaper content really work now? Aren’t newspapers really hamstrung by the loss of monopolies that once gave them huge pricing power?
MediaWorks grabbed a few minutes with Mr. Brill, who founded Court TV and the magazines American Lawyer and Brill’s Content, to hear his answers to some of those questions……[read entire article]

