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by rvz 40 days ago
1. Most news sites on the web have an ad model.

2. Bloomberg LP.
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mmooss 40 days ago
And there are also sites with free news, such as AP, NPR, CNN, Fox, etc.
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rvz 40 days ago
funded by....donations from corporations and billionaires?
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mmooss 40 days ago
I don't know, what are they funded by? Is that how AP is funded? The NY Times, WSJ, FT and many others are now funded by subscriptions. Your claim from a few comments up doesn't seem to match reality:

> That is unrealistic and not sustainable without an ad model or being funded by a company doing over a billion dollars in revenue already.

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rvz 39 days ago
> Is that how AP is funded?

Are these not foundations owned by billionaires funding the AP? [0][1]

> The NY Times, WSJ, FT and many others are now funded by subscriptions.

That doesn't seem to be "at no cost" does it?

NY Times, WSJ, FT already are making billions of dollars sustaining themselves from that and are again owned and backed by billion dollar companies.

Why? Because it is NOT free "at no cost" and there is always someone else paying.

> Your claim from a few comments up doesn't seem to match reality:

The opposite is true. You have only further supported my claim.

[0] https://www.ap.org/about/supporting-ap/

[1] https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2025/ap-fund-...

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