By Ben Barokas

The Guardian has taken the bold step of engaging with its readers around content compensation. Earlier this week, editor Katharine Viner took the opportunity to directly ask readers to help fund the Guardian’s extensive coverage of Brexit. By publishing a post on its website and distributing a newsletter to the Guardian’s membership base, Viner encouraged readers to support the publisher through monthly contributions or a one-off payment which it would use to continue investigating the implications of Brexit and develop “in-depth, thoughtful, and well-reported journalism”.

In recent months publishers such as City AM and the Wall Street Journal have Read full story ›

Source: The Drum