Please Help with Cash

Poynter pointed out that the Miami Herald has begun asking readers for donations. I remember I did this in the beginning and the people didn’t like it very much at all. Some did donate, though. I imagine the Miami Herald should be able to drum up quite a bit more money with their audience. We shall see.

Karwath noted this was “the beginning of a conversation” about non-print subscribing, which I steered toward e-editions, digital replicas of print that are much more common than subscriptions to websites.

The Duluth paper, which was sold three years ago to the Fargo-based Forum chain, doesn’t offer an e-version. Karwath says the paper, formerly of Knight-Ridder, was looking at the Olive software platform, but the sale disrupted that process. The chain’s largest paper, the Fargo Forum, does have an e-edition.

wrote a Minn Post blogger

I dunno. Just shows how clueless old media still is? Olive software platform?? Rolls eyes. Come on, now.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out. I think the people (at least some of them) will want to donate to help out. It could start a backlash, however, because a lot of people are still very upset with big media.

Your thoughts?