> and The Economist are already pay sites, and they're almost the only news sites with actual reporters. The Economist doesn't actually have on-staff reporters

> and The Economist are already pay sites, and they're almost the only news sites with actual reporters. The Economist doesn't actually have on-staff reporters, they rely on correspondents around the World who sell their articles either ad hoc or on a commission basis. They do have staff who write editorials, but not the news articles. The Economist is also happy to ( try to ) utterly bombard me with ads on their website despite being a subscriber. They even had a crawl-up SUBSCRIBE NOW! ad at one point when I was logged-in.