Build the Wall Analysis

Your tasks are as follows:

1) Read the article in full.

2) Create a blogpost on your MEST3 Exam Blog called 'Build The Wall analysis'. 

3) Summarise each section in one sentence:

• Section 1 (To all of the bystanders reading this…)

They want to find the right way for people to pay for content in this day and age which will be hard.

• Section 2 (Truth is, a halting movement toward...)

The need to create a new stream of revenue for content as content is the most important thing. 

• Section 3 (Beyond Mr. Sulzberger and Ms. Weymouth…)

Without adverting the newspaper industry would have down a long time and now its going to go down even more

• Section 4 (For the industry, it is later than it should be…)

3 scenarios to help build the wall and mostly are to help out the regional papers4) 

Summaries David Simon’s overall argument in 250 words.
David Simon overall argument is that the newspaper industry is dying out and so they need to come up with a plan to help save it and that by coming up with a stream of revenue.He doesn't like the idea of online subscriptions so they cannot use that they must come up with another way.As the audience who wants the news already have access to it for free and so why would they pay for it when they have it there for free already.there  are many ways to get news for free such as reports then clear pictures and videos also live content and also the reader can interact with the others by the comments.So the best way to attract readers that will pay for contact is that your content has to be 10/10 reliable and credible.Then the decline will be decline however if it carries on like this newspapers have already lost their readers they will also lose staff.Although readers might be convinced to pay online for a strong ,unique product,there is still in the last twenty years to suggest that newspaper chains would reinvest to create such a product.For those papers,its likely that a thin online subscriber base will reflect the weakness of their product. 

5) Read this response to the article by Dave Levy, criticising and disagreeing with David Simon's viewpoint. What references to new and digital media can you find in Levy's response?

Dave Levy talks about how there is a major difference between a news reporter online and a non-professional journalism.Also the content received online is received and can be spread to the corners of earth by social networks as well and so the online news website will have more readers to it. He talks about how if you do charge for your content the reader will just go online and read one of your competitors content and become regular readers to them. This means that institutions are practically wasting their time charging consumers when they can go to other competitors to receive news. 

6) Finally, what is your own opinion? Do you agree that newspapers need to put online content behind a paywall in order for the journalism industry to survive? Would you be willing to pay for news online? Critical autonomy is the key skill in A2 Media - you need to be able form opinions on these issues.

I disagree as building the wall is a waste of time as the reader will go somewhere where its free so i believe they should keep of trying to work something out to have another way of receiving income as none ever thought we would be here watching live news on the go receiving news within seconds.So the future can hold anything for the newspaper industry.