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It could obviously live side by side with an actual subscription, and I’m sure this has been gamed out and called too risky in a hundred meetings. But newspape
by ordinaryradical 3y ago
It could obviously live side by side with an actual subscription, and I’m sure this has been gamed out and called too risky in a hundred meetings.
But newspapers need to reconcile that in an era of hypersmall publications (aka blogs, substack, etc.) they are no longer in a market which is about the overall package (the paper) but the individual writer.
The business model does not reflect this reality, tie the transaction to that value, or respect that diversity of authorship is the value of the web. I want to read 20 authors from 20 papers, not 20 from 1. There is less and less value in having “a venue” to subscribe to apart from the support it gives individual authors to do in-depth work.
- notaustinpowers 3y agoI never understood how something like individual journalists, writers, reviews, etc on Substack or on their own blogs haven't formed something like a journalist cooperative. It's owned and operated by the journalists themselves, and they all maintain their independent and individual reporting. But now with the added support of 20-30 other journalists to work together for the really big stories. And it's easy enough to have the overarching cooperative submit for grants, donations, or other revenue-generating activities to support the journalism.