Professor Martin Skladany proposes a readership assistance program in new article

CARLISLE, Pa.—Professor Martin Skladany, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and professor of law, recently published an article in the Columbia Journalism Review proposing newspapers and magazines create readership assistance programs.

“News subscriptions should be subsidized” discusses how eighty-three percent of the country doesn’t have a single media subscription and how a new program could help.

“One idea is a readership assistance program that offers free or subsidized digital subscriptions for readers who can’t afford the full cost of a subscription,” Skladany proposes in the article.

Martin Skladany is a professor of intellectual property, artificial intelligence, law and international development, law and higher education, and health law. Professor Skladany is the author of Copyright’s Arc (Cambridge University Press) and Big Copyright Versus the People: How Major Content Providers are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them (Cambridge University Press).