Global media: charge readers for subscriptions. Meduza: spends $80,000 every month to keep access to information free

Global media: charge readers for subscriptions. Meduza: spends $80,000 every month to keep access to information free

No, we’re not idiots, we’re idealists! Meduza is deliberately not introducing a subscription, because it matters to us that anyone can read the news and figure out how to live in this insane world. And especially in a situation where Russians are being cut off from access to information every day.

We are prepared to make any effort for this and, in particular, spend tens of thousands of dollars a month so that millions of people in Russia can read us without a VPN and so that Meduza simply opens up (for absolutely everyone, anywhere in the world).

How did this happen, why is it so expensive, and how can you help? We have an answer ready.

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Global media: charge readers for subscriptions. Meduza: spends $80,000 every month to keep access free…

Every time we ask people to support Meduza with a donation, someone inevitably suggests that we should simply introduce a subscription, like other global publications do. That is not our path, and we chose it consciously. Meduza has always been a publication for everyone who wants to know what…