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“I cannot emphasize enough how out of character it is that a royal press team went on the record in response to what is essentially gossip.”
The FT has more than 1.4 million subscribers, including more than 1 million digital subscribers. About 20% are based in the United States.
“If we really want to serve communities that are increasingly tuning us out, increasingly unsubscribing, increasingly looking the other way — my God, we’ve got to go to the communities directly.”
“I don’t believe a news organization must be doing something right because people on all sides are angry. But it’s also not a sign that a news organization must be doing something wrong.”
After a $61 million acquisition by public media, Chicago-Sun Times readers get free content and the newsroom has grown. But no one’s taking a victory lap for local news yet.
“If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”
“They’ve never said, ‘We got that wrong.'”