At first it seems an unlikely place for an expensive paywall business model to work -- Nova Scotia.
Nearly 6,000 subscribers are paying $360 a year for access to the AllNovaScotia.com website, according to Tim Currie's story in Nieman Lab.
That's about $2 million and represents 80 percent of the revenue of the site.
How are they doing it? One of the key elements is focusing on basic public-records searches and document-based reporting.
