Posts Tagged 'Hetq.am'

Begging for your readers’ money: What works and what doesn’t

April 17 2009 3 Commented

My favorite news website, Wikipedia, is funded exclusively with its readers’ money (except in Germany). And I don’t need to tell you it’s not subscriptions.
Is the Wikipedia model replicable for news websites? I know of a few experiments that I’m sharing below:
1. Hetq.am This independent Armenian site made a call to its readers, begging them [...]

Online news in Armenia

February 6 2009 No Commented

You probably know that Armenia was the first country in Europe to convert to Christianity. Did you know it was the last country in Europe to shoot dead protestors in the street?
This environment – a highly educated, diasporic population facing a harsh political situation – is a Petri dish for news outlets. Maybe that’s why [...]