Major Publishers Take Down Paywalls for Coronavirus Coverage
An interesting decision as some organizations have recently instituted them
More media organizations are putting coronavirus coverage in front of their paywalls.
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Key insights:
- More publishers have had to decide whether to make content free, some of them not long after launching paywalls.
- Most major publishers have made some coronavirus-related coverage free.
- By doing so, it might actually win over new subscribers.
Midterm elections, massive snowstorms and now coronavirus. Those are the coverage areas so important to the public that publications have been willing to make articles about these things free to read.
