The Wall Street Journal and parent company News Corp is holding talks with Facebook to offer its articles via a subscription model on the social networking platform, reports Bloomberg. However, it's not clear what the subscription model will look like: if all WSJ articles will be made available, or will it be restricted to special packages for business news, sports news, etc. The subscription model, if it materializes, will be great news for not just publishers, who are struggling to get a bite of the online advertising pie dominated by Google and Facebook, but also for Facebook's content hosting and monetization platform Instant Articles. Then there is the matter of Facebook's expected stagnation in ad growth by mid-2017, as confirmed by CFO David Wehner who said that Facebook has maxed out how many ads it can squeeze into people’s news feeds. Which…
