Meanwhile, At INM

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Yesterday.

In the Sunday Business Post.

Colette Sexton reported:

Independent News and Media (INM) is considering the introduction of a paywall on its news sites.

The newspaper company, which publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Sunday World, as well as a range of local newspapers, has given its content away for free on its websites up to this point.

…A new corporate strategy for INM completed by EY recommended that the newspaper group charge for some of its online content.

The EY project, entitled The One Programme, saw key executives and editors in the company interviewed. It was critical of current innovation and digital strategy within the group.

INM looks at introducing paywall (Colette Sexton, Sunday Business Post)

Previously: The Daily News

Pic: INM

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21 thoughts on “Meanwhile, At INM

  1. Rob_G

    They are dead right, too. This business model of giving content away for free has had a lasting damage on the free press: good journalism costs money.

    (that being said, I would be unlikely to pay money for an online subscription for any of INM’s newspapers, though the Sunday World is quite good)

      1. Rob_G

        The Sunday World, although a bit tabloid-y in some of their content, do a strong line in investigative journalism. They broke the story on Callelly fiddling his expenses and a few other big ones in recent years.

    1. Otis Blue

      Trouble is that bad journalism also seems to cost a lot of money.

      Who in their right mind would pay to read Barry Egan or Brendan O’Connor?

  2. Martco

    haha yeah I wonder if the rebranded Ernst & Young also do the accounts for the Indo…perfect fit that if so

  3. kellma

    In my experience, external audits are a tick-box-exercise. It is the approach of the internal auditor that I take seriously… Our unit misses NOTHING.

  4. some old queen

    Sunday World has not been free for quite a while now, maybe a year or so?

    Also, is Sunday Life not in the stable too? Or is that a secret?

  5. Matt Lucozade: The Only Reader of the Village

    I put up my own paywall against INM products years ago. Why not do the same?

  6. steve white

    they already have a datawall on the opinion peices I’d be delighted if those trolls went behind a paywall

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