This is great from the Mill’s founder and senior editor about online advertising is (particularly) pernicious for local journalism. It incentivises quantity over quality, with the intention of generating as many page impressions as possible. Subscription based models generate more income per viewer, providing a much more effective fit with the smaller and more finite audiences of local media.
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