I don't want to be too pessimistic but, this will fail. It won't scale. Look at medium, I read it when it was free then I stopped once the paywall hit. I think

I don't want to be too pessimistic but, this will fail. It won't scale. Look at medium, I read it when it was free then I stopped once the paywall hit. I think news needs public help. and public funding One model I've heard about, is to get news into the not-for-profit category, give it full tax exception and make the conditions of that status such that it has to meet standards and not have an editorial line. News has always been owned by wealthy people who did it in the public good and to use it as a tool of control. I think we need to be very eyes open to the distortion and conflict corporate owners eventually have with their news outlets. Happy to be wrong btw.