As much as I have been encouraged by the democratization of news the internet has brought about — anyone can report on anything at anytime — I believe in paid content. You get what you pay for. If you want your news for free, you’re going to get news of little or no monetary value produced by just anyone at anytime. Free news is good news, but news with a monetary value is better news. What I have said a few times during the past year as I was involved in attempts to create paid online news sites — and even been quoted a couple times saying it — is that the great myth of this age of journalism is that newspapers’ free online content is actually free. It’s not; it’s subsidized.

Former Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple writing on his Temple Talk blog, has some advice that editors everywhere should heed. Underlying it all is the notion that the entire organization needs to be involved in content and committed to the product.

For those not faced with newspapers closures or company closures or layoffs of one kind or another, the WARN Act is the Workers Adjust and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies that employ a certain number of people to give 60 days notice before a plant closure. We at the Rocky Mountain News, received our noticed about 12 hours before we put our last newspaper to bed, and were then paid for the next 60 days which ended last Tuesday. Apparently, the employees of the Boston Globe have received their notice from the New York Times Company.

It’s March 20 already? What happened. Oh, yeah, right. This: http://www.indenvertimes.com/