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Originally Posted by SebC
Once the economy returns to normal, they won't need to. The New York Times made more money off advertising when they made it free than they did from subscriptions. Online media exists because it is profitable, and it's free because that's the optimum pricing. Heck, Metro is printed and it's free...
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Their office is in the same building as mine. I doubt there are 20 people in there. 90% of their stories are picked up off the media wire, so other than print it they don't need to do anything beside sell advertising. Heck a person posted in this forum claiming to be from Metro asking what they should write about.
And the NYT are the parent company who are threatening to shut down the Boston Globe. That model may be profitable for the NYT, but they haven't duplicated that success elsewhere.
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