Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:55:00 +0000
media, newspaper, crisis, ap, associatedpress

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116359768691382574

This should not surprise anyone. The newspaper has been in decline since before I started in media, which was 2008.
Revenues slump, subscriber numbers fall, nobody* has any idea how to monetize news information aside from paywalls or ads.

*yes, there are special cases and valiant attempts, but not really any new business model that could save the news media business as a whole