Categories: OLD Media Moves

Crain’s Chicago to start online subscription plan this week

Crain’s Chicago Business will introduce a metered subscription plan starting Thursday for its website, ChicagoBusiness.com.

A story on the paper’s website states, “Crain’s has been charging for the weekly print issue online since 2001, but with this introduction, all users will be able to view up to 12 Crain’sarticles per month at no charge and after that will be asked to pay $59 for an annual digital subscription. Current digital subscribers will see no change in their subscription rate.

“New combined print and digital subscriptions will now be available for $99 annually. For a limited time, current Crain’s print subscribers will be able to upgrade their subscriptions to include digital access free of charge.

“The majority of users will see no change.

“‘We have enhanced the user experience and instituted a subscription model that is current and fair. It satisfies the power user’s need for deeper Crain’s content while leaving other users’ access to the site unaffected,’ Crain’s Publisher David Snyder says.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.