{"id":672777,"date":"2010-02-23T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002442"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:21:07","slug":"miami-herald-stops-asking-for-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/672777","title":{"rendered":"Miami Herald Stops Asking For Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/tipjar-thumb-340x324-37312.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>After asking readers for donations <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/12\/miami-herald-asks-for-donations.html\">late last year<\/a>, the Miami Herald has <a href=\"http:\/\/newsosaur.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/tip-jar-vanishes-at-miami-herald.html\">given up on the program<\/a>, Reflections of a Newsosaur reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Herald officials steadfastly refused to detail the response to the novel program, which debuted in mid-December. However, Herald editor Anders Gyllenhaal said shortly before Christmas that &#8220;the first few days of this experiment have elicited an encouraging steam of gifts, ranging from $2 to $55.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The paper published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/02\/20\/1490558\/herald-ends-payments-for-online.html\">short article<\/a> on Saturday saying it decided to discontinue the program, without explaining the reasons for the decision or the amount of money that had been raised. UPDATE: In an email at mid-day (Monday), Gyllenhaal said the paper felt the request for reader donations conflicted with a campaign for Haiti earthquake relief that has raised more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think, has the Haiti earthquake claimed yet another victim in the Herald tip jar, or is this just an excuse to bail on a failed idea?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsosaur.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/tip-jar-vanishes-at-miami-herald.html\">&#8216;Tip jar&#8217; vanishes at Miami Herald website <\/a> [Reflections of a Newsosaur]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After asking readers for donations late last year, the Miami Herald has given up on the program, Reflections of a Newsosaur reports: Herald officials steadfastly refused to detail the response to the novel program, which debuted in mid-December. However, Herald editor Anders Gyllenhaal said shortly before Christmas that &#8220;the first few days of this experiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P1f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}