Like all massive news with global ramifications, the startling Brexit outcome has caused traffic surges for most quality publishers. But to Financial Times staff, it has led to more than that; it has proved the case for quality news journalism.
The publisher dropped its paywall for all Brexit-related news for 24 hours on the eve of the vote last Thursday and naturally saw a traffic spike. It has experimented with dropping its paywall before — doing so on its 20th anniversary last year. Its motive this time around: to fulfill its journalistic duty of providing undecided voters access to both sides of the debate. Over the weekend, the FT’s Brexit poll tracker was its most-popular-ever piece of journalism, drawing nearly 4 million pageviews.
Comments
No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here