My job at The Current was also substantially supported by The thing about member drives, though, is that they work - and as on-air hosts now often remind listeners, membership contributions help keep the stations' websites free to all.
Public radio operates under a nonprofit membership model, which is why they have those member drives listeners love to rag on. Minnesota Public Radio's service for new music. When advertising revenue plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic.īoth publications' websites were free while they lasted both have now been taken down.Īn independent online publication founded by four former City Pages editors, asks readers to contribute financially and makes use of a paywall to force the issue.įrom 2013-2022, I wrote for the website of Vita.mn was published by the Star Tribune, whichĪfter acquiring City Pages in 2015 five years later, City Pages was I also wrote regularly for Vita.mn and City Pages, two Minneapolis-based publications on the alt-weekly model.
