The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

Why we’re going dark for September

For free subscribers, we’ll be paywalled for the entire month. International news is expensive and taxing. Today’s issue is about the closure of foreign reporting bureaus around the world.

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We’ve been looking at the data: right now, just 3% of our readers pay for our work, meaning 97% read it for free. It’s an unsustainable figure for us as we try to report from a war zone.

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