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Wonder if there are other models. So grants are one. Anything else people experimented with?

• permo-w 4y ago
  The Guardian is largely funded by a sort of specifically set up investment group, but that obviously isn't viable for less established operations. there's also the donation model, which The Guardian used to operate on. there's also a charity model, where the newspapers are funded by grants from a charity. that's somewhat similar to the government model, with its own up- and downsides. this is probably the model a conservative would argue for if it became clear that paid subs and adverts weren't serving popular needs. you've also got the sort of hobbyist/industry blog model that's very common on Hacker News, where people do it in their free time, sometimes as an accompaniment to their main job the only other model I can think of is scientific journals, where universities pay the wages, and the scientists/unis pay the damn journals to publish their work, which then sell that same work for extortionate sums and don't give any of the money back to the creators
  • podviaznikov 4y ago
    thank you! Didn't know about Guardian and investment group stuff. Also great insights about scientific journals. Now I'm thinking, maybe it's possible to have media like that. Where you have day job and you write a bit on the side as an actual expert?
    • permo-w 4y ago
      I think there's certainly room in the industry for that as an idea, but I wouldn't want it to become the norm. it has the potential for all sorts of conflicts of interest and I'm not sure I like the principle of it. if you're an expert in a field, and you're talented enough to write about it for the popular masses, I think you deserve to be fully compensated for that