mattwnz:

 

PolicyGuy:

 

psychrn:

 

I had a look around the NZHerald site this morning and most of the articles are Premium.Not a lot of free material available. 

 

In the introduction interview with the Editor I think he states that "most" of the content is free. I beg to differ what I am seeing.

 

 

On the Whanganui Chronicle site today, of the material datelined 1st May there are thirteen "premium" articles and eight free access articles.
That makes it much less than "most" of the content being free to access. Unless you consider 38% to be "most" - maybe NZME's arithmetic is as poor as their journalism?

 

 

 

 

But are their 13 extra stories now, than there would have previously been? It appears there are more stories published, than just those that are on the homepage, but the premium ones seem to be promoted to the homepage. So if you don't use the homepage, it appears there are a lot more non premium stories. 

 

No, these are not extra stories at all.

They include such obviously "premium" content as Clarke Gayford gets behind the wheel before throwing line into sea or Community supports meningitis fundraiser in memory of Chloe Boniface, Anti-1080 campaigners make noise, Doc hits back and Gun pointed at scared Castlecliff Hotel owner during robbery.

This is just the same old same old NZME content that was free last week and "Premium" this week.
My view is that it’s going to drive clicks away from NZME sites at a great rate of knots. I certainly won’t be looking at it nearly so often, even though it's the only local publication.