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The online investigative publication that recently reported French President Nicolas Sarkozy received 50 million euros in campaign support from Libya in 2007 is an anomaly: a profitable subscription-only service that accepts no advertising. Mediapart is showing that in the right circumstances, an investigative news organization can be a viable business. Investigative journalism in the […]
Read More »At first it seems an unlikely place for an expensive paywall business model to work — Nova Scotia. Nearly 6,000 subscribers are paying $360 a year for access to the AllNovaScotia.com website, according to Tim Currie’s story in Nieman Lab. That’s about $2 million and represents 80 percent of the revenue of the site. How […]
Read More »Justin Arenstein never really wanted to work for a big corporation, but that is how he started out in journalism. He was a reporter working on contract covering one of the desperately poor shantytowns of his native South Africa. He and his colleagues ran afoul of corporate management by covering the death squads that were […]
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