This News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up

Posted Friday, April 2, 2021 1:30 pm

Shannon Bond | NPR

Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, Sinead Boucher offered $1 to buy Stuff, New Zealand's largest news publisher.

Boucher was already the company's chief executive and was worried that its Australian media owner would shut down the publisher. Things had started to look really grim...

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