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[–] pathief 35 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

I often wonder how news websites are supposed to survive. People (myself included) want unbiased news websites without paywalls and ads.

How are they supposed to pay their staff?

[–] cley_faye 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Subscription models. Some sites even combine some free articles with it, so that anyone can look into their works, but not necessarily everything. If it fits you, you get a subscription. Sort of the same way people would pay for their daily newspaper.

It can be argued that "news" should be free, and there are some news site that are basically picking up AP/AFP/whatever and repost these, but actual journalism do requires work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

That’s what they do, then users cry about paywalls

It’s lose/lose

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