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Most Recent PostsThe Grey Lady, For a Price
Faced with falling ad and circulation revenues, the New York Times has announced it will start charging a fee to read the paper online. Reports, fittingly, the New York Times:
Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper’s print edition will receive full access to the site.
But executives of The New York Times Company said they could not yet answer fundamental questions about the plan, like how much it would cost or what the limit would be on free reading. They stressed that the amount of free access could change with time, in response to economic conditions and reader demand.
