re: The Advocate on line no longer free

Does the Advocate have anything other than opinion pieces that you can't get anywhere else?

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Quality journalism takes a financial commitment.

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ha yeah nope

Any important news i'll end up hearing about for free.

Kind of reminds me of the brilliant decision made by the owners of Tiger Roar.

Is that site even in existence anymore?

People aren't going to pay for shitty service when they can get a better service for free.

This kind of like Scott Innes winning an award for radio?

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High quality content

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LOL - the paper is screwed.

I have to force myself to read that hot garbage. Do they even pay their reporters? i’ve seen 10 year olds write better - and that includes you Will

Tiger Roar wasn't producing original content.

Quit complaining about advocate. Experience a Gannett or Digital first newspaper.

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Experience a Gannett or Digital first newspaper.

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Gannett charges too after so many free articles.

I could see one day that the paywall even going up on local TV news. There is a little more premium ad space in the form of prerolls that can help delay local TV sites from doing this, but I could be coming.

The other big issue is the Associated Press which is a 2 way street. You supply local content to this distributor in exchange for national and regional coverage. At a time it was more of a cooperative endeavor, but as with everything the cost is growing so they are starting to price out some member papers.

Another issue with AP is that you have AP member TV stations that are redistributing parts of newspaper content because they are AP members. Even though online TV websites may only use a portion of the full article, it is enough for a reader to understand the context of the story and not click back to the original newspaper article which would generate ad revenue. Even though some AP content may be embargoed from certain markets, if the restrictions are too small some people that follow multiple TV stations in different markets they will still find that content.

Also, Newspapers have technology to blame as they are no different than the days when the horse and buggy was over taken by automobiles.

Now the internet is over taking the printing press. Whether it’s Facebook or a forum like this, I can read something now and I don’t have to wait for it to appear in newsprint.

Don’t get me wrong journalism still has its place in original reporting about the complex and unknown, but today when I can read it first somewhere else, I don’t need to pay x to read it again by someone else.

I know this may be off topic, but if Louisiana ever got out of the 19th century in the courtrooms in the state by allowing internet streaming of court cases, it would truly be lights out for newspapers because I can watch and listen to what is going and I don’t have to wait for the articles to be written about those cases I am interested in.