Traditionally, people have been happy with someone selling their eyeballs in exchange for content. If, for real, you didn’t pay a coin, then the content is not the product, as they say. Or wrote a law, or regulation, requiring you to pay licence fees to a so-called public broadcaster. The government maybe took the money from you and gave it to some corporation to give you the content. You probably didn’t write out a cheque, but you paid. Mutuma Mathiu, the editorial director of Nation Media Group, wrote the “no free lunch, no free content” column explaining the decision to readers: Subscriptions start at 50Ksh for one week, 150Ksh for one month, or 750Ksh for one year. Capitol riot - users will have to pay up. To read Nation articles more than seven days old - like this report that thousands of students have failed to turn up at schools after their nine-month closure due to Covid-19 or a viral column asking “Who is the banana republic now?” following the U.S. The Nairobi-based newspaper - the largest in Kenya - is adopting a paywall in what appears to be a first for African-owned media in the region. There’s “ no free lunch” and, starting Friday, their journalism will have a price tag, too. The Daily Nation has a message for its readers. LINK: nation.africa ➚ | Posted by: Sarah Scire | January 29, 2021
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