News Sites Have Bigger Problems Than Aggregators

Wednesday, 07. 29. 2009  –  Category: Enversa Companies

Journalism is in a state of crisis, as online content has become a more important gateway of information to news readers, and paper-based subscription services have declined. Those inside the media are understandably distraught over the loss of their primary business model and sources of revenue, and the blame game has begun to try to pin the decline of the financial fortunes of the Fourth Estate on a particular culprit. The most recent focus of venom is towards bloggers and aggregators of news, which link to news sites without generating their own content. Such websites are said to reap financial benefits from the money spent in supporting the expensive process of reporting, without providing any monetary backing of their own.

The argument put forth by news…