What We Can Learn From The Wirecutter Paywall

It oftentimes feels like business models are dogma. You are either pro-subscription or pro-advertising. There is a right way and a wrong way to run a publication. I’ve had far more debates about this topic than almost anything else.

That’s why it wasn’t surprising to see the early responses to the news that The New York Times would be putting a paywall in front of Wirecutter. According to The Wall Street Journal: