At first blush, they would seem to have nothing to do with one another. BuzzFeed – the Internet’s finest crackerjack box of sticky, clicky listicles sprinkled with original reporting – announced that it raised $19 million in venture funding. In a far-away corner of the Web, Andrew Sullivan, the pioneering blogger who has expanded into a mini-magazine within the Daily Beast, announced he was taking his team private, forgoing advertising and venture money, and relying instead on all-you-can-eat subscriptions for $19.99 (or more, if readers felt generous). It is serendipitous that BuzzFeed and Sullivan’s Dish made their announcements hours apart, because their stories belong together even if their styles are opposite. The archetypal BuzzFeed article begins, “50 Puppies to Get You Through Your Bad Day: Bet you can’t stop looking at these dogs.” The archetypal Dish article begins, “The Future of the Welfare State, Cont.: Douthat counters Ezra [blockquote].” But both sites are doing something extremely correct, both sites entertain and inform a mass audience, and both sites offered fitting glimpses of the future of paid journalism – or, more accurately, two halves of that future.