Former Times employee Khoi Vinh on what the NYT pay wall really costs:
focusing on the pay wall for most of the recent past, they effectively paused on [innovation] for a dangerously long spell.
In what I would label a very tempered piece, Vinh suggests they’ve wasted time on establishing a beachhead on an old business model, rather than innovate. I agree. And now, the problem The Times has is one of public perception. My generation will gladly pay for something we see value in, the problem is that we pay with attention first, money second. Get our attention, get our money.