Last month, sites like Vice, HuffPost and BuzzFeed laid off more than 2,000 people. Frontrunners in the digital news arena, they were supposed to thrive where newspapers had declined.

What’s going on in the business of news? And how might these companies get you to sustain them in different ways, including paying for their content?

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