Re:Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @02:56PM
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> should be a way to pay for a single article
It fundamentally doesn’t work due to journalism, particularly investigative journalism, having high fixed and sporadic costs. Consider the trivial example of defending ones’ journalists against a lawsuit. You can’t easily borrow against clickstream revenue.
Caveat: it could work, but at effectively a a few months’ subscription price per article.
It fundamentally doesn’t work due to journalism, particularly investigative journalism, having high fixed and sporadic costs. Consider the trivial example of defending ones’ journalists against a lawsuit. You can’t easily borrow against clickstream revenue.
Caveat: it could work, but at effectively a a few months’ subscription price per article.