Have digital subscriptions already peaked?

"Publishers have already signed up many of those prepared to pay and in a tight economic climate it has been hard to persuade others to do the same." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...

"Missteps in Gaza coverage spur push for a global code of media ethics" www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/miss...

“Today’s dominant online revenue model has consumers trading their attention for free content. This model can’t work if my AI agent’s priority is to defend my time.” www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/ever...

“Of course I don’t trust the news media collectively, or automatically. I trust some brands some of the time.” www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...

“If one newspaper is not enough in a county of a few hundred people, a handful of newspapers is unacceptable in a county of almost 10 million.” www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/jour...

“If the velociraptors taught us anything, it’s to keep throwing yourself at the fence — you never know when the electric grid may be shut off.” www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...

Anddd more from: @parkermolloy.com, @jonaskaiser.bsky.social, Paul Cheung, Juanita Islas, Ruth Palmer, Francesco Zaffarano, Mael Vallejo, and Bill Adair !

Read em all here: www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

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Today's Nieman Lab predictions, from @mitrakalita.bsky.social, @jesseholcomb.bsky.social, @mergerson.bsky.social, @michaelgreshko.bsky.social, Kendall Trammell, Kerri Hoffman, Oliver Darcy, Basile Simon, and Peter Bale -- (1/2)

The cable news kayfabe is dead. And, @bencollins.bsky.social writes, that’s good for the truth. www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...

“For an increasing subset of readers, ‘articles’ will be as invisible as CSS code.” @bassey.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/rise...

"The future-of-journalism community can no longer afford to ignore this reality: Many people still depend on local TV as their main source of local news." www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-...