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Thanks Rushabh - do check out our articles tab, which has a lot more information (www.thejuggernaut.com/articles). Say more about what you mean by influential? And tell me more about why you think it should be free?

Recently, the likes of BuzzFeed and HuffPo have all been having layoffs because the ad model has become broken in media. What other business models have you seen that you find interesting?

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I work in open source, which is also kind of in a similar problem. A way to think of open source is that its a utility, like the highway system. The people who make money from highways are the car companies.

I think a similar challenge exists with journalism. Writing and publishing has become so cheap and I can easily fill my time with reading reasonably good content on free blogs or Medium that paying a tiny publication may not be a good idea. (I already subscribe to newspapers and Economist)

If you have exclusive content, then you can charge for it. https://the-ken.com/ is a good example of a small publication that has done well as it focuses on a niche, early adopter community.

Well, Juggernaut should definitely take a look at Brave's BAT (https://basicattentiontoken.org/) as a revenue model. BAT is an Ethereum-based utility token that users reward publishers with. BAT can be exchanged with Bitcoin/Fiat on exchanges like Uphold (https://uphold.com/)

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