Article in the Washington Post by Eric Wemple 11/1/24

Headline: “Opinion:  What happened to all those subscriptions?”

Subhead: “The Washington Post has suffered a subscriber desertion. What does it mean?”

“Subscription counts hover in the worries of journalists at The Post and across the industry. That’s because advertising revenue has cratered in the internet era, leaving outlets ever more reliant on revenue directly from the pockets of their readers. So when NPR’s David Folkenflik reported this week that The Post had lost 200,000 subscriptions — and then 250,000 — unease set in. Could this possibly be true? How?”

“. . . The astounding backlash to the non-endorsement policy was best explained … by a Reuters study that came out more than a year ago: ‘Many of those in the US who say they want to support good journalism self-identify with the left, where many feel that their political beliefs and values are threatened.’ ”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/01/washington-post-digital-subscribers-endorsement/