For most of the last century, news media operated on a simple premise: building a readership by providing content and then selling the attention of that audience to advertisers.
In the past two decades, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, all had to adapt to a blossoming of an array of outlets on the web, many of them simply collecting and then disseminating news.
The traditional advertising-heavy funding model for media has been steadily plummeting for years, and it continues to do so.
So nowadays, even those online news outlets have to start rethinking their business models.
