Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Definitely. Swedish paper @dagensnyheter already did, to their credit.

at least on the relevant articles!

News & journalism is a valuable service and people should pay for it like they do for everything else of value that is costly to produce.

No, they should stop disseminating incredibly bad info by just going out of business.

No. Providing people with a large quantity of low quality information is arguably worse.

It's always easy to say others should provide stuff for free.

Side note, why can’t the social networking companies put up a little note that says PAYWALL, or something like that, next to every link that goes to a pay site. It’s very annoying to click to a site only to find most of the article you wanted to read is behind a paywall.

Yes, and any loss in revenue could, I think, be supplemented by gov't emergency funds.

No, because the government should have all the necessary info.

Why? These are businesses (that not infrequently peddle in fear mongering and propaganda). It's not the 1920s and if the CDC needs to get a message out or people want to hear their advice there are many alternative means...