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Journalism Online’s Press+ to Launch on College Newspapers

The Daily O’Collegian of Oklahoma State University will be the first college publication to launch the system on its website, ocolly.com, in early 2011. The paper will collect a small fee from online readers who are outside the school’s immediate geographic area and who do not use an email address with an .edu affiliation and who read the paper online more than three times a month. This is achieved by deploying two aspects of the Press+ platform in tandem: the “meter” technology combined with “geo-targeting” technology.

The O’Collegian has been in existence since 1895. Today, it’s read by the nearly 25,000 students, faculty and staff, and other actively engaged members of the Oklahoma State community.

“We’ve always known that the content our students produce has value well beyond the free drop distribution of our newspaper. Charging a modest fee to access our online content for non-students who live outside Stillwater helps us foster that belief,” said O’Collegian general manager Ray Catalino.

“Obviously, a college newspaper should be provided for free to the college community it serves,” said Steven Brill, co-founder of Press+. “But if at the same time these papers can solicit modest but much-needed financial support from alumni, parents or others logging on regularly from outside the community, then the hard work of these dedicated young journalists can be sustained and enhanced. By using our metered model along with geo targeting, Press + is able to do exactly that.”

Source: Press+