alt Hacker NewsIt seems to me that the only mainstream newspaper to figure out a workable solution so far is NYT. And their solution was games. One of these days that will be all that remains and people will forget what the NYT acronym stands for aside from Wordle.
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> And their solution was games.
For a long time, the solution of most newspapers was classified ads. They've always financed news with non-news services.
I gave up on the NYT as a news source in their handling of the Iraq War. Prior to that it was a daily purchase.
Which is, in and of itself, a problem: I feel like we're trending towards a US news landscape where the NYT and their editorial board are the only ones setting the tone and discourse of print media.
The Atlantic, WSJ, The Economist, Politico all come to mind as profitable.
I don’t think it’s anomalous to have a major national newspaper that’s profitable. And WaPo should have been absolutely primed for Trump II given its long time DC focus. They historically had the best political coverage of DC.
in the English speaking world...
FAZ, Der Spiegel, NZZ earn money, too and their market is way more restricted.
The financial times is doing well and has a better model IMO: expensive with a professional audience, not the general public.