[six_four_eight]

Agree in that “Startups” imply scale and that’s just race to the bottom clickbait with maybe a little real news on the side. However, one example here in Canada is “Canadaland”, which is profitable, funded partly by subscribers, and has investigated and broken real stories. The founder has made the point recently that journalism is not something that scales, but can be a successful business by serving an audience.

[Scoundreller]

Canadaland may have been bootstrapped/helped along by its journalist founder getting some cut out of what they co-founded, “bitmoji” maker bitstrips, which was sold to Snapchat for a reported US$100m.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstrips

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Brown_(journalist)

Maybe the article title should be “Journalists that have successful exits in non-journalism startups should invest in journalism startups”