Biz: The Adventures of Newsday Customer No. 36: Week in review
- Today, they ran a story about a mannequin in the HOV Lane. For most papers, they’d think, holy crap! Perfect viral news opportunity. But not the Cablevision-run Newsday. They’re trying to make the newspaper into the Web equivalent of a cable channel. It’s designed as if it’s a TV station’s Web site, not a newspaper. And in our week of subscribing, that was the prevailing message: We don’t understand the market. Here are some quick numbers.
- 18 number of e-mails we got from Newsday; two-thirds of those were “breaking” news
- 8 number of text messages we got from the service; seven of them had links to ads
- no it’s not worth the $5 a week, and no, we still haven’t been charged, either, guys source