Newspapers always made their money from commercial and classified ads. Craigslist killed journalism decades ago, LinkedIn and Facebook Marketplace are the moder

Newspapers always made their money from commercial and classified ads. Craigslist killed journalism decades ago, LinkedIn and Facebook Marketplace are the modern successors to CL. Google adwords finished the job. Newspapers subscription prices only ever covered a small % of the overall costs. Spotify is a complicated racket, there are some very good video essays exploring who is making money off of Spotify (it isn't Spotify and it isn't the artists!), a but the rabbit hole there goes deep.