> Advertising-dependent, though. News is not going to work right until the readers pay a significant chunk of the revenue. That caught my eye too. Your second

> Advertising-dependent, though. News is not going to work right until the readers pay a significant chunk of the revenue. That caught my eye too. Your second sentence is why I put a good chunk of change into https://thecorrespondent.com/ https://thecorrespondent.com/, and now send them $5/month. I'd be willing to chip in a couple of bucks per month for ad-free local news, otherwise I'm not interested.