{"id":5363,"date":"2013-08-31T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2013-08-31T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:56:15","slug":"do-online-business-models-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"Do online business models matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/felix-salmon\/2013\/08\/31\/do-online-business-models-matter\/\">Felix Salmon<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately, it\u2019s far too easy to get caught up in the \u201cbusiness model\u201d question, and thereby lose sight of the much more important question of who\u2019s doing the best journalism. NSFWCorp is producing great stuff, as is Business Insider, as is the New York Times. All three of them look as though they\u2019re going to find a way to make that journalism pay, which is fantastic. And here\u2019s something else they all have in common: if one of their writers finds a great story, and needs to spend a lot of time deeply reporting it before it can be published, all of them will make sure that can happen. When it comes to what matters, it turns out that profound differences in business models make much less difference than you might think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Salmon: Ultimately, it\u2019s far too easy to get caught up in the \u201cbusiness model\u201d question, and thereby lose sight of the much more important question of who\u2019s doing the best journalism. NSFWCorp is producing great stuff, as is Business Insider, as is the New York Times. All three of them look as though they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}