>>There are plenty of free (paper) newspapers that are funded by advertising revenue. I don't see any reason in principle why it couldn't work for the online newspapers, who have lower overheads.
(a) IMHO free news is generally crap
(b) you'll need some facts to support the "low overhead/online advertising" argument. Empirical evidence suggests that is not the case. There are too many advertising destinations for online ads where there are (or were) relatively few destinations for print ads.
(a) IMHO free news is generally crap (b) you'll need some facts to support the "low overhead/online advertising" argument. Empirical evidence suggests that is not the case. There are too many advertising destinations for online ads where there are (or were) relatively few destinations for print ads.