Gerry Storch
Naples, Florida 
Homepage: http://www.ourblook.com
I was sports editor and business editor of Gannett News Service in the USA Today headquarters in McLean, Va., when I and a number of colleagues took buyouts at the end of 2001. Before that, I was a feature writer at the Detroit News and Miami Herald, and Accent section editor and newsroom investigative team leader at the News. I hold a B.A. in political science and M.A. in journalism, both from the University of Michigan.
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February 3, 2009
Sorry, one more time ...
Three press authorities far more august than me also say papers are crazy for not charging for a web site ... here they are ... More...
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February 1, 2009
By Gerry Storch
What a thrill ... I score by landing an article on the primo Internet scholarly journalism review, ojr.org ... a bunch of guys write in to tell me how stupid I am ... I guess I've finally made it!!!
They told me I was stupid because I contended 1) the nation's newspapers, which are failing, should go all-Net, 2) concentrate on what hopefully they do best, local news, and, most importantly, 3) stop giving it away for free with their web sites and start charging big-time.
What galvanized me into trying an encore was quite the incisive article by Chris Anderson in the Jan. 31-Feb. 1 Weekend Journal section of the Wall Street Journal. He writes about the proliferation of "free" goods and services online ... and devastatingly tears apart this so-called business model, saying it's about to come crashing down.
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January 25, 2009
You don't get free gas from a gas station.
You don't get free meals from a restaurant.
You wouldn't walk into the Googleplex ... that's Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. ... and expect a staffer to rush to the lobby with 1,000 free shares of Google stock for you.
At least we don't think so.
So why is the newspaper industry the only one in America that is expected to give its product ... in its electronic version ... away for free?
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