It offers this explanation:. We invest in this journalism on your behalf. I see the move addressing two issues but straddling another. That was made worse by the pandemic and near halt in business travel. Like most newspapers in transition, USA Today needs to capture digital subscribers as well as sell digital ads.
Also its plus regional titles are paywall-protected and draw on USA Today for content. That creates an odd situation where a given article might not be available without subscription at a regional paper but could be accessed for free at the USA Today site.
On the other hand, large traffic numbers combining the regionals and the free USA Today site have made national digital sales an important line of business for Gannett. In February it added McClatchy and its 30 regional titles as a national sales client. My guess is that going slow while phasing in digital paid helps preserve that selling point to advertising clients. Plus beta testing makes all kinds of sense for a change of this scale — the company will be harvesting data on which approaches yield the most paid subscribers and whether readers are ready or resistant.
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If I subscribe for a special offer, how much will my subscription cost after my special rate expires? How can I sign up for newsletters? Have tried looking at the settings but see nothing that would cause this. I do like and enjoy the content overall, but these points cause me a pause in the purchase. Just changed my rating from 3 to 2 as this free app is becoming less and less useful every day.
I have enjoyed reading the news on the USA Today app for years. Recently the experience changed when some content was blocked and available only to subscribers. Once I paid for my subscription naturally I expected to no longer have access blocked as only being available to subscribers but sure enough that is exactly what happened no matter what I did.
Even after signing in. Since it was the weekend I only had the chat option for customer support and their suggestion was to call customer support on Monday. Their suggestion? Call back in 24 hours! The lack of helpful customer service precipitated by the lack of a seamless process in to recognize when a reader has converted to a paid subscriber holds me back from being able to rate higher than average. Sports Canada and Black Press. Skip to content.
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