The "Donation" Subscription. They no longer just ask you to buy the paper; they ask you to "Join the Club" and donate tax-deductible cash to keep the lights on.
Northwest Passages. The paper has pivoted to being an "Event Company." To engage with the news, you are expected to buy a ticket to a stage show at the Bing Crosby Theater.
Digital Pivot. The print edition is shrinking. The focus is entirely on the digital ecosystem, where they compete for your attention against TikTok and Nextdoor.
Creative Commons. Stories funded by the community are technically owned by the community. This is a radical shift—the IP is open source, but the distribution is still centralized.
The Verdict: The "Patronage" Risk. When the bank funds the business reporter and the hospital funds the health reporter, the structural incentive to investigate those institutions evaporates.
Nostalgic Modernism. They lean heavily on the "Review Tower" iconography to project stability, even as the business model beneath it undergoes a radical, desperate reinvention.