Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt worked for NYT because they already built a brand and had established customers. For others it failed. The model failed more than it succeeded aside from some special cases
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ads failed and subscriptions failed too so they went out of business. The free news model was tried for many years and failed.
Someone needs to pay the journalists’ salary.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed