Newspaper Response

This is an article I found on the Media Guardian website, which I think relates to my specialism of Journalism. The article is about The New York Times halving its amount of web articles that can be viewed for free, as their paid subscriptions has exceeded their expectations. 


Here are the main points of the article: 

• Only going to be 10 free articles per month
• 454,00 paid subscribers after a year
• Before, free users could have 20 free articles
• The publisher maintained that it will "continue to allow access to a generous amount of free content on the website and across multiple digital platforms". 
• The NYT offers three access packages: $3.75 per week for the website and smartphone apps, $5 a week for the website and tablet app, and $8.75 a week for access to everything. 

This reflects my impact on my chosen field, because I often read news articles on the internet, and even though I don't read of the New York Times, if a English Newspaper/Magazine, started cutting down on the articles you could read for free, I wouldn't be subscribing due to the lack of money as a student.

I think this also presents social and economic issues, because also, many people might not be able to afford to subscribe to the New York Times to read their articles, as $3.75 a week is quite an amount, when you add it up to every month, or even every year. 

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/20/new-york-times-web?INTCMP=SRCH