[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ A thought I have been playing with, a bit of an request for help

[Deepone]

I have been talking about this for a while, and wanted to do it for maybe longer time. The dream is about a newspaper or news-site on internet that ONLY has good things. These days most newspapers are after scandals and disasters and so on, so this would be really refreshing. And would potentially attract customers. I am really thinking of actually doing this, and using YOU as a subject to decide how to go on with it..

1) What are your feelings on that, could it work (as a business)?
2) Would you like to follow such paper, even if the news would not be that often at the beginning ?
3) Could you be able to contribute by forwarding such news for me / the site?
4) Do you know where such sources could be found ?
5) What are your suggestions on with going on with the idea ?
6) Any improvement ideas ? Basically I'm going to try to go after the "newspaper" style. Because of the available resources I have thought of first using the internet, then maybe going for real papers and who knows, maybe also as tv-channel later on..

[Awai]

sorry deep but i've got to agree with radnoken that the payment (even micro payment) newspapers are struggling to make a profit from the effort they make. you'd be better off building up a local commerical magazine perhaps similar to the one a few people make in my area which is filled with cheap local advertising from shops and businesses, the adverts pay for the print run and you build in an acceptable margin for your time. Over the medium term you can expand your magazine into one big one or several localised ones and also charge £1 a month for webbased advertising too...

just a thought... :D