Changing media landscape: Rouleur confirms addition of paywall

Changing media landscape: Rouleur confirms addition of paywall

In a message sent to subscribers and partners, Matteo Cassina, the Publisher of Rouleur, has confirmed that the popular cycling title is adding a paywall. Noting that… “quality journalism is hard to sustain in a digital world where content is expected to be free – and where AI platforms increasingly harvest and reproduce work without supporting the humans behind it,” Cassina said that Rouleur has… “made a big decision”, whereby most of its digit…

Why Rouleur is adding a paywall (the changing landscape of cycling media)

Friday, July 4th, marked a significant event in the cycling media space: Matteo Cassina, owner and publisher of Rouleur, announced via email and LinkedIn post that Rouleur would be adding a paywall. Below we share that full, unedited email, whilst also encouraging readers to visit the LinkedIn post Matteo shared, where you will see comments from across the cycling media landscape. My name is Matteo Cassina, and I’m the publisher of Rouleur. I wa…