The site’s traffic is now nearly 20 percent higher than it was part of The Boston Globe. “What’s happened to Crux demonstrates that it is possible to sustain a niche news platform with a kind of for-profit and nonprofit model.”
But the site may live on under other management. “We simply haven’t been able to develop the financial model of big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers that was envisioned when we launched Crux back in September 2014.”
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Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Boston Globe is shutting down its Catholic vertical Crux, citing a shortfall in advertising." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Mar. 2016. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
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Owen, L. (2016, Mar. 11). The Boston Globe is shutting down its Catholic vertical Crux, citing a shortfall in advertising. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/the-boston-globe-is-shutting-down-its-catholic-vertical-crux-citing-a-shortfall-in-advertising/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The Boston Globe is shutting down its Catholic vertical Crux, citing a shortfall in advertising." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 11, 2016. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/the-boston-globe-is-shutting-down-its-catholic-vertical-crux-citing-a-shortfall-in-advertising/.
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