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Ads failed and subscriptions failed too so they went out of business. The free news model was tried for many years and failed.
Someone needs to pay the journalists’ salary.
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed
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Ads failed and subscriptions failed too so they went out of business. The free news model was tried for many years and failed.
Someone needs to pay the journalists’ salary.
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed