Journalists Pay Themselves
Get more of your free subscribers to go paid. The play by play of reader-funded news.
A growing list of newsletter writers and journalist run newsrooms relying primarily on reader funding (or at least making a good chunk of change from their reader base)
Methods that work at any audience size. Not just social media!
The backstory behind my 2025 partnership and what it means for you
Writers love coming up with reasons they can’t get paid. Here's 13 ways to make money on your terms.
Start automating more of your communications with your readers with email sequences
'Behind the story' costs get readers paying the freight for the footage
Pay other writers to send subscribers your way with this easy paid ads strategy
Ryan Broderick says it's time to panic about the state of the media. Here's why I'm still optimistic.
A social media hack runs in the background bringing in real revenue
Subscriptions moving too slow? How 'bout getting into sponsorships!
You don't need a platform to cross-promote with other writers
A list of relevant publications for journalists and writers using beehiiv's recommendation engine
I asked Rascal how pay $1 for this story was working for them and how it competed with subscriptions on the paywall
A checklist to save your work, secure your audience and land on your feet from Liz Kelly Nelson and Lex Roman
Why Andy Dehnart landed on ad-supported as the revenue model for "reality blurred"
Replace big tech platforms with the 3x3x3 system for growing your publication