• sbv
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    1 year ago

    As annoying as this is, I hope it will push news outlets to consider other funding models. Getting subscribers to pay for journalism seems much healthier than subsisting on ad clicks.

    The Globe kinda does this with their soft paywall. The ex-Irving papers in NB seemed to do pretty well with their hard paywall.

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      1 year ago

      They’re all trying to get people to pay for journalism, but not enough people are paying.

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        1 year ago

        CTV News doesn’t provide membership/subscription options. Many newspapers don’t even have a soft paywall.