Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscription models

Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by owlninja on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:49PM (#14806282)

The title makes it seem like TheStreet is the product but it isn't.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14233293/1/facebook-s-campbe...

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by Torai on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:06PM (#14806444)

That's a very misleading usage of the colon (:) punctuation mark. Is it even correct to use it like that in english?

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by annexrichmond on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:25PM (#14806616)

I think it is more correct (and less ambiguous) to have 'TheStreet: Facebook to launch news subscription product'

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by senthil_rajasek on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:30PM (#14807179)

I wonder why they did not use this common variant,

"Facebook to launch news subscription product. -TheStreet"

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by jonnathanson on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @07:14PM (#14808809)

It's a strange attributional convention used in headlines and links by some publications. I've never understood why, as it reads so confusingly, snd the reverse usage (source: topic) seems readily and intuitively available instead. But it's still common to see (topic: source) in certain house styles.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:09PM (#14806479)

Yes, it is used to denote the source of a bit of news or a paraphrased quote.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by monfrere on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:32PM (#14807641)

This should not be downvoted. One sees the source before the colon more often than after the colon, but it is common to see the source after the colon in some publications. I see several instances (e.g., "Corporate lobbying helped derail border tax: senior Republican") on the Reuters homepage right now.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @05:19PM (#14808048)

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by huntermeyer on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:17PM (#14806542)

When the source is leading it makes sense...

Source: Headline

This reads much better

> TheStreet: Facebook to launch news subscription product

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by draw_down on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:47PM (#14806791)

I just said that it's correct. Which it is. If you don't like it, great.

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by gregmac on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:35PM (#14806697)

To save someone the confusion and clicks:

TheStreet is a media/news company [1].

The product in question:

> The feature is likely to allow publishers to create a paywall on Facebook's Instant Articles and guide readers to a publisher's home page to opt for a digital subscription

This HN entry is actually a Reuters article about the TheStreet article about the product. [2]*

[1] http://corporate.thestreet.com/

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/video/14234594/you-might-have-to-p...

* I'm not sure this is exactly what's being referred to, because TheStreet appears to publish somewhere between 1 and 14 articles mentioning "facebook" every hour [3], so this was the first mention I saw as I scrolled through.

[3] https://www.thestreet.com/find/results/index.html?q=facebook

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Re:Facebook in talks with publishers on supporting subscript... by ThrustVectoring on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:29PM (#14806645)

This should be the target of the submitted link instead, IMO.

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