{"id":12861,"date":"2016-12-01T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2016-12-01T22:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T04:26:31","slug":"reboot-illinois-moving-behind-paywall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/12\/01\/reboot-illinois-moving-behind-paywall\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboot Illinois moving behind paywall"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Reboot<\/a>

<\/a> Reboot Illinois<\/p><\/div>\n

If you want to read Reboot Illinois,<\/a> the political journalism website and daily newsletter, now it\u2019s going to cost you.<\/p>\n

After four years of free access to its readers, the digital source for news, commentary and analysis about state and local government will be shifting next week to a paid subscription model.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving from a public affairs journalism organization primarily supported by seed investments and advertising to one supported mainly by your subscriptions,\u201d publisher Madeleine Doubek emailed readers Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"Madeleine<\/a>

Madeleine Doubek<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe started Reboot Illinois four years ago with the help of some seed funding from prominent Chicagoans who were concerned, like we were, that citizens were not getting reliable and fair reporting, in-depth analysis, or a wide range of commentary and infographics about our local and state governments in Illinois,\u201d she wrote. \u201cOur mission has been and remains to inform, engage and activate Illinoisans about the governments we all own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reboot Illinois was bankrolled in 2012 by hedge fund manager Anne Dias, founder of Aragon Global Management (and ex-wife of billionaire Ken Griffin), who hired the editorial and technology teams, and oversaw the platform\u2019s initial digital and marketing efforts. Earlier this year Dias sold her ownership interest to AFK Media Group,<\/a> a Chicago-based investor group headed by entrepreneur Anthony Knierim.<\/p>\n

Doubek said Thursday that AFK Media remains \u201cfully behind\u201d the mission. \u201cFrom the start, Reboot Illinois was always envisioned as a self-supporting, profitable media firm and this is another step to get us closer to that goal,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n

(In her email to readers, Doubek noted: \u201cIn the past decade, the rates advertisers pay throughout digital media have been dropping fast. Advertising simply isn\u2019t enough to support our work any longer.\u201d)<\/p>\n

At the outset, subscribers will be charged $12 per month or a discounted rate of $120 a year. Current readers will be offered a 50 percent discount for the first four months, or an annual rate of $100 if they sign up before year end.<\/p>\n

In July Reboot Illinois partnered with PolitiFact,<\/a> the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking initiative launched by Poynter Institute\u2019s Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to read Reboot Illinois, the political journalism website and daily newsletter, now it\u2019s going to cost you. After four years of free access to its readers, the digital source for news, commentary and analysis about state and local government will be shifting next week to a paid subscription model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12871,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}