Thank you for that.
The only other model I know of is the donations model that The Guardian has. I believe those donations are also publicly subsidized by governments. If there is separate funding or tie-ups, as I mentioned, with AI companies, then that's a viable option.
People don't value what comes for free, but they will value and take in something they pay for. Unfortunately, we are in an ecosystem where information is free, but information is often conflated with news, which it is not. The newsgathering process, which is amplified, distorted, shorn of context and then distributed for free, is often itself an expensive process, as Brandon Gonez has just testified to as well.
Donations from individuals, donations from local companies to maybe fund local investigations, and donations from big companies could come with the idea or absolute condition that they have no editorial say, because it can get dicey when you have big companies coming in. There is a way to do it with people having no say in the independence.
Those are some of my suggestions.