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Plus: Spotify wants podcasts to be first-class citizens of its app, the state of indie podcast studios, and Howard Stern/Terry Gross is the most ambitious crossover event in history.
Being a Quartz Member ($100/year) will now be required for access to all of its stories — one more case of a quality publisher finding that advertising revenue isn’t enough to allow a readership without limits.
“I represent thousands of people who have told me they want to hear about this, and I happen to be the guy who’s paid to go on planes and dig up documents and ask these questions for them, because they’re busy living their lives.”
A collection of scholars argue that digital journalism studies shouldn’t be considered a subset of journalism studies, but instead a separate field of its own. And they say they’re not just splitting hairs.
Plus: “Passive misinformation” is a problem for The Hill and other mainstream media outlets, and a closer look at some of the research projects Facebook is opening up to.
If the Tribune can pull it off, it could point the way forward for other metro newspapers with civic-minded owners.
“Subscribers pay their money and get access to a product. But members join the cause and participate because they believe in it.”
More and more news organizations are implementing paywalls. A new report from the Reuters Institute for Journalism surveys the paywall landscape in 6 European countries and the U.S.