Digital production has lowered the cost, and the Ghost platform in particular is a great value for small publishers, bundling together the blog, newsletter and subscriptions in one package, even now including ActivityPub federation.

And Ghost themselves a non-profit org that doesn't mark up the Stripe transaction fees!

One local news outlet recently switched to that, saving about %5 on Patreon fees and a second is switching now.

https://ghost.org/