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As I said I have no idea what they did and maybe I'm just being naive, but $1 million per year seems like plenty to keep a website online.

• dagw 12y ago
  $1 million per year is plenty to just keep a website online. It's not that much if you also want to pay people a decent wage to produce world class content to put on the site. I'm guessing the choices they faced was between a slow multi-year slide along: cut costs->lower quality content->less viewers->less money->cut costs... and simply seeing the writing on the wall and calling it quits before they hit rock bottom. I guess a third option would be to take The New Republic route and throw out everything the current audience loved about the magazine and try to create a new, entirely different product, with the same name but focusing a potentially more profitable market. But I respecting for not wanting to go that route either.