It used to be that the "profit" from advertisement paid for journalists to write stories that would get you to look at them. Now the profit from ads largely go

It used to be that the "profit" from advertisement paid for journalists to write stories that would get you to look at them. Now the profit from ads largely goes to engineers to build products for the web, (and shareholders of tech companies). Both journalism and web stuff provide public good, but we need to figure out how to replace the revenue that financed journalism. The public was getting it for "free" before, and when it moved online we continued to want to get it for free, but the advertising model did not survive the transition.