Pay Wall Interview 1
Interviewee Demographic:
Age: 18 Gender: F Occupation: Student
Answers:
1. Interviewee 1 is interested in sport, celebrity news and entertainment.
2. She reads magazines and papers weekly, mostly bought by her parents but would maybe buy a magazine every once in a while.
3. Reads The Sun and News of the World
4. She occasionally reads online journalism from professional sources but would seldom think of looking online at them. She prefers to look at sites more directly like a sports site for sports news and find out for herself. She uses the BBC site a lot because everything is there and would use it for schoolwork.
5. BBC and gossip blogs
6. “NO!” She would not pay for online subscriptions because she thinks it would be cheaper to get it in print or find it free elsewhere. It would have to offer something extra to make her pay. She thinks she would consider paying for an online subscription is she was in a full time job where she needed a range of information a lot but for personal use wouldn’t bother spending the money.
Pay Wall Interview 2
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Interviewee Demographic:
Age: 46 Gender: M Occupation: Teacher
Answers:
1. Interviewee 2 is interested in politics, current affairs, football and other sport and likes to keep up to date with all of it.
2. He reads print journalism daily and likes to relax with a paper after work.
3. He reads the Independent throughout the week and The Independent on Sunday and will occasionally read Empire Magazine
4. He only reads online journalism if he wants to catch up on and old story that won’t be in the paper. He reads online weekly or fortnightly, depending on if he’s following a story or not.
5. He would use The Times for a specific story, and has in the past but mostly looks at The Guardian online and The Independent online.
6. No, He would not pay for an online subscription because it’s not relaxing scrolling down on a screen and he likes to chill with his paper.
ADDITIONAL:
Interviewee 2 didn’t think it was wrong for the Murdoch papers to ask people to pay but believes it is a mistake that will lose them readership. He dislikes the papers currently under a pay wall anyway though and would rarely use them as a source.
He would be annoyed if the papers he read went under a pay wall as he doesn’t think it’s fair to have to pay for information. He’s aware that The Guardian charge for access to archive stories and thinks this is wrong and will put off students and young people from looking at what would otherwise be a useful source.
