Digital news: a study in how not to do business - Newspaper
Visit any Pakistani news website and then go to a foreign one. What’s the one difference you’ll definitely notice? Contrary to what the boomer drawing-room expert who exclusively relies on WhatsApp for all sorts of information says, it’s not that the local media is doing lifafa journalism. The key distinguishing feature is that they ask you to pay to read. Publications all over the world have made the move towards a recurring subscriber base. So much so that young outlets like Scroll.in or The Wire, which started barely five years ago, have put up paywalls. In comparison, even media p...
Source: dawn.com