Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait

Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by alexandernl on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:34PM (#11347516)

Blendle's founder here. Pricing is something that we're going to experiment with. Nobody knows what the willingness to pay for journalism, yet. So we're going to figure that out.

I think it'll always be a mix between micropayments and subscriptions: micropayments if you only read a little, subscriptions if you read a lot from a specific title.

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by JacobJans on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:39PM (#11350417)

I don't think people should pay for journalism. They should pay for journalists.

What do I mean?

The benefits that we get from journalism are maximized if we have expert journalists – people who dedicate their lives to being good journalists.

Good journalists need stability. If they depend on the readership rates for individual articles, they are disencentivized to take the kinds of risks that a stable institution can afford to give them.

I don't know Blendle's long term plans in terms of supporting quality journalism – but the micropayment model is at odds with giving stability to individual journalists.

Hopefully this is something your are thinking about. How can we best support journalists – and not just individual peices of journalism?

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by maxwelljoslyn on Thursday March 24, 2016 @11:04AM (#11353336)

(not the person you replied to)

I think you're right. I can't believe I never thought of like that before.

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by ska on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:33PM (#11355183)

This is the sort of thing someone like Blendle could choose to do. After all, just because content is payed by the piece doesn't mean content creators must be.

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Re:Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds... by ska on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:56PM (#11349742)

I wish you luck, this is a hard nut to crack.

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