> Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game? Depends on what "any room" means. A w

> Is there any room for a news organization that doesn't do this "keep the user on our website as long as possible" game? Depends on what "any room" means. A website like that can certainly exist and potentially even be profitable, but there's always a ton of pressure to not do it. Even if you're profitable now, playing that game will make you even more money. "The meta" here is to spend the smallest amount of effort to produce the most content that's just interesting enough to keep someone reading it, and extract the most viewing time from that little content. Judging by what the companies are adopting nowadays, it seems that they figured out that being reputable just isn't profitable enough.