Newspapers and the Subscription Model

So this morning one of my favorite blogs, D Magazine’s Frontburner took up the (seemingly for the millionth time) debate surrounding subscriptions to newspaper Web sites as a way to combat falling print revenues. AH Belo, the parent company of Dallas’ paper of record, the Dallas Morning News, is hinting that they’ll toss up pay walls in the near future on one of its online properties. I weighed in on the comments, but I wanted to share it here as well. [Read more...]