Tear Down this Paywall: Germany’s Taz Newspaper Launches a Reader Revolution From Berlin

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2018 3:00 pm

Anna Rohleder | IJNet

It’s a social enterprise that’s profitable.

A free-to-read content model on a sliding scale.

And not least of all: a reader-supported newspaper where a EUR500 membership doesn’t even get you a free subscription. Yet more than 17,000 people have joined the taz news cooperative in Germany on exactly those terms.

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Tear Down this Paywall: Germany’s Taz Newspaper Launches a Reader Revolution From Berlin

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