What the Pandemic Means for Paywalls

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A year ago this month, major publications across the United States partially or completely lowered their paywalls. The idea was that information about the outbreak of COVID-19 had life-saving potential, and so it should be available to everyone, not just to subscribers—a fraction of news readers who tend to be the wealthiest and most highly-educated. Lowering paywalls was ethically sound.

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