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The financial times is well known and subscriptions are journalism's only viable model today


But it's not necessarily good hacker news material. We get links that do not work, publishers get free promotion without providing anything. We will say something about viable models, and then somebody will post an archive.org link, bypassing the paywall and the viable model.

I flag links that do not work, not because I'm opposed to subscriptions (I subscribe to some online publications), but because I think Hacker News should only link to articles that are actually on the internet.


Journalism, sure. But most people are happy with entertainment news.

I'm a FT subscriber. I just know 99% of people aren't, and lots aren't even aware it exists or its reputation.


If you have to tell people that it's well known, it's not well known.


Just an internationally known 137 yr old news outlet that is ranked #3 for Finance news in web traffic... Not knowing about FT says alot more about the poster than FT.




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