If things are bad for news websites now, you should take a look at how bad is been (for a long time, actually) for small biz, non-profits and individual creators who used to be able to build an audience for their work and now can't. Traffic and engagement on Twitter cratered a while ago for Ada Lovelace Day and it's really hard to work out how to replace that.
Broken: Part 1 - Discovery is Broken
If things are bad for news websites now, you should take a look at how bad is been (for a long time, actually) for small biz, non-profits and individual creators who used to be able to build an audience for their work and now can't. Traffic and engagement on Twitter cratered a while ago for Ada Lovelace Day and it's really hard to work out how to replace that.