Being a Quartz Member ($100/year) will now be required for access to all of its stories — one more case of a quality publisher finding that advertising revenue isn’t enough to allow a readership without limits.
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?
Can publishers find a sustainable business model this new age of Facebook/Apple/Snapchat/Twitter/Google distributed content? And is local news destined to be left behind?
O'Donovan, Caroline. "This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Aug. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
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Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a time." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified August 20, 2014. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/08/this-why-atlantic-media-is-funding-a-social-platform-for-sharing-links-one-at-a-time/.
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