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see The Economist - they are doing great. subscription based (and not cheap), extremely high quality, multi-media (print, app, web, audio). free news? it'll

• ConceptJunkie 7y ago
  I subscribed to the Economist a long time ago. I don't think there's another news magazine that covers things in as much depth, or which is not focused almost exclusively on the USA and/or Western Europe (or things that affect them directly).
• dredmorbius 7y ago
  The Economist has long had a three-pronged revenue base, roughly 1/3 each: subscriptions, advertising, and bespoke consulting reports. These not only provide a diversified revenue stream, but help (with apparently decreasing success) keep the publication from sliding into the oblivion of clickbait irrelevance, most especially the bespoke service, EIU, the Economist Inteligence Unit: http://www.eiu.com/home.aspx http://www.eiu.com/home.aspx In general, business-oriented or public-interest publications (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal (somewhat), Craines, Mother Jones, ProPublica) do better than straight "family publication" productions. The subscribers will put up with less bogosity. I'd done an analysis of mentions of any of the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, vs. an arbitrarily selected string "Kim Kardashian", back in 2015. The ranking of mainstream and alternative publications by "FP:KK ratio" was illuminating. (Also various online / social media sites.) https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/tracking_the_conversation_fp_global_100_thinkers/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...