Senior diplomats join subscription media

Former officials and leading scholars are increasingly taking regular columns on paid or membership media platforms rather than just writing in legacy newspapers or academic journals. That migration concentrates policy authority on curated networks (editors, funders, and platform audiences) and reshapes which venues set the terms of public debate. — If senior diplomats and respected democracy experts favor subscription platforms, those venues become de facto policy forums and influence pipelines for government and media, shifting power away from traditional gatekeepers.