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As the article points out "spotify for news" model is already here, that's Youtube and platforms like Nebula. Revenue is shared by the platform with the news creator.

And I get that people don't register many channels as "news", but I see it as just semantics. There is no ambiguity about what MKBHD is providing in his podcast/weekly Waveform videos, or how a lot of channels have a weekly video or corner to lookback at what happened during the past days, often straight labeled something like "news Thursday".

Of course, just like Spotify, the platforms can't sustain these channels. The article points at patreon, but there's another source that is completely missing from the picture: sponsors and product placements. Those represent a lot more money than the platform a and often a lot more that patreons.

Now there might be problems somewhere, but at this point I'ď see them getting solved along the way as we transition further and further from the "news agency" model to smaller "news studio" channels.