Excellent article!
Thanks for sharing those two Robert Picard videos. The first one was very informative and the talk he did in 2013 while dated in some of its references was very informative at it’s core. That Soundcloud file you shared was from 6 years ago. Wonder how that Slovenian experiment went.
I appreciated the Australian perspective near the end.
I wrote my own Medium article on news paywalls with my own Australian perspective. Check it out here if you want:
News Paywalls and the Inevitable Dwindling of Audience by Anthony Eales
https://link.medium.com/lXz9oUogcR