New way of funding all media is needed

The business model that supported news-gathering and news-sharing since Johann Carolus published the world’s first newspaper, in 1603, in Strasbourg — the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, if you must know — has collapsed since the turn of this century.

The business model that supported news-gathering and news-sharing since Johann Carolus published the world’s first newspaper, in 1603, in Strasbourg — the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, if you must know — has collapsed since the turn of this century. 

The change has been devastating and many honoured and honourable platforms, especially newspapers, have disappeared, unable to withstand the internet piracy that we now regard as normal.