'Build The Wall analysis'.

• Section 1 (To all of the bystanders reading this…)

This section is about the importance of news and why journalists need to be paid for the work they do. It states that news has to come from somewhere, and that it is the job of the journalist to unlock the stories with evidence and give it to society.

• Section 2 (Truth is, a halting movement toward...)

Simon states the success and use of his theory of using an online subscription, like the Timesand The Post do. He is claiming that this method is already being used and people are actually using this feature, as in applying for the subscription.

• Section 3 (Beyond Mr. Sulzberger and Ms. Weymouth…)

newspaper's overall agenda to fill pages of articles and advertisement isn't coherent for a social climate that is constantly prone to change

• Section 4 (For the industry, it is later than it should be…)

Evaluating the possible outcomes for a couple of newspapers if they decide to 'build the wall' eg for the times...the post.

Summary of argument 

He's very adamant this will work and sees no other way as to how sufficient revenues will be gained. He suggests that the two Newspapers mentioned above are like market leaders and when they choose to go behind a paywall all other Newspaper companies will follow. Back in the late 90's they thought that the Internet would benefit the newspaper industry and were excited about gaining a larger audience in young readers.Furthermore, David Simon analyses how the decline in newspapers leads to a reduction in staff. The example provided is from ‘The Sun’ where the staff dropped drastically from 500 to 160. There is major risk behind the paywall as newspapers have to ensure their audience are engaged with the content all the time.

I believe that this article is quite positive about developments in new and digital media. I think that because the uk reports news on a more national scale compared to the US localised way there is more influence and NDM has allowed this to reach more people in a number of ways. Although this because of this news has lost a lot of credibility because of the lack of checking before something is published online. Moreover, regaurding paywalls i disagree about using them as people now-a-days especially the millenials wouldnt pay for news and it just means they are potentially loosing out on money.