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What broke the New York Times?

28 October 2021

9:00 AM

28 October 2021

9:00 AM

The New York Times entered the digital era under duress. In 2011, the Times erected a paywall in what it called a ‘subscription-first business model’. The gamble was that readers would want to pay for quality journalism. It was a risk, and at first it didn’t seem to be paying off: after a challenging 2014, the company shed 100 people from the newsroom in buyouts and layoffs.

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Batya Ungar-Sargon’s Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy is published by Encounter ($29). This article was originally published in The Spectator’s November 2021 World edition.


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