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Apple News+ subscription growth blows away major media sites
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npr and associated press are free and not for profit.
Fair point, I don't envy much about America but NPR is a gem. There's much more included in News+ though.
NPR is not free; it's paid for by taxes, which means that every U.S. citizen is in fact paying for news whether they like it or not. And "not for profit" is not the same as "no cost to the consumer." In addition, most of the outlets for NPR are local public radio stations that are - you guessed it - funded by taxes (as well as fund drives).
NPR/public radio stations get less than 10% of their funding from the federal government.
NPR gets most of its money from corporate sponsorships, which means advertisements, which falls back to being the product
obviously nothing is literally “free”, that’s a trivial point to make. operational funds have to come for somewhere. The point was there's no additional cost to the reader (that they aren't already paying for) to get news from those sources and they don't depend on ad revenue or data monetization to make a profit.
Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers