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Articles by Hal Crawford

“Readers want to be contributing to something that is successful. So you have to be careful about crisis messaging, saying, ‘Oh gosh, we’re going to go under if we don’t get support.'”
Lifestyle and youth publishers that source the majority of their traffic from Facebook face closure, while traditional media players that campaigned for the laws look set to be the relative winners.
Facebook and Google argue that the value they derive from news content is marginal and they don’t believe they should be responsible for funding it.