The previous post – Part II: Three months into paywall … – might have been more info than many readers would ever want to know. But so many news organizations are going that way – to online subscriptions – that readers might appreciate that snapshot as well as information in
Some folks write us with irritation about the green paywall, or online subscription screen, that pops up on ydr.com and our other sites. That screen is keeping them from reading something of intense interest, possibly even the rest of a story, since they had used up their five free monthly
We’re just at the three-month anniversary of charging for online subscriptions for virtually all content on ydr.com and our other websites. So what is the reader reaction 90 days in? Well, responses averaged about one a day for the first two months and now come in at about two or
This is a story about paywalls and dancing. Or maybe about how our paywall or online subscription on our websites can make you dance. A teacher emailed me about resources for a new unit she’s teaching on major criminal cases and crimes in York County history. She named some of
The problem of child abuse in York County is an ongoing emphasis of York Daily Record/York Sunday News coverage. And that coverage has been credited with keeping the issue in the spotlight. Five from our newsroom covered the recent child abuse summit. This photo captures part of that event: ‘Remembering
As coordinator of blogging for YDR at Yorkblog.com, I’ve been keeping an eye on what effect the online subscription policy is having on our statistics. I initially worried that putting blogs behind a paywall would lead to a drop in readership. We only have a few months of data to
York Daily Record/Sunday News staff members call this section of flagship website ydr.com ‘Editors Picks.’ The staff updates this section’s stories and photos regularly each day. It’s Exhibit A in our news organization’s pursuit of immediacy. When we prepared for installation of online subscriptions or paywalls on our five websites,
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have responded to a few dozen notes from readers since we started our current online subscription plan in August. I usually don’t hear back from people. But I would say that of those who did reply, 90 percent of them were polite, pleasant and
Knowing that we were sure to get a lot of responses from readers confused by or unhappy with our new model for online subscriptions, I crafted this framework of a standard response before we launched the effort:
The YDR/YSN/ydr.com just observed an anniversary of sorts this week – two months with online subcriptions. Actually, such subscriptions – often called paywalls – have been in place on ydr.com for more than a year. That paywall covered only part of our content – the stuff that was in print.