So 19 cents buys you an article at Blendle, the Dutch journalism start-up developing an iTunes-style payment method for newspapers, magazines and websites, which just made its debut in the U.S. last week with several high-profile publishers that include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and New York Magazine.
I have downloaded it and I am trying out. Blendle gives you the option to select the topics that interest you (Politics, Election 2016, Health & Fitness, for example), then will guide you to articles in those categories. IF you like an article, you pay 19 cents to buy it.
Blendle banks on the idea that millennials, used to paying iTunes for music, will be just as happy to pay for content.
Blendle launched in 2014 in the Netherlands and Germany and quickly locked down a combined €3 million investment from The New York Times Company and Axel Springer.
Columbia midterm project gets a Poynter nod
The project for two of my Multiplatform Design & Storytelling class at Columbia University gets discussed in this Poynter piece:
http://www.poynter.org/2016/why-isnt-there-a-fitbit-for-news/403973/
