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Christian Science Monitor Editor Discusses First Digital Anniversary

John Yemma, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, provides an overview at paidContent about the first year after limiting the paper edition to one day a week and making the transition to mostly digital. Via a video interview I did with him in November 2008, you can compare what is he is saying now with [...]

Pay walls going up

The Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era in Lancaster, Pa., is one of the first handful of news outlets planning to use a software system developed by Steven Brill, L. Gordon Crovitz and their partners, called Press+. Others include The Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina and Global Post.  As the NY Times reports, a move to charge for content means not a [...]

NY Times to try new pay wall plan

The New York Times is ready to jump back into the pay wall business.  New York Magazine reports a final decision could be days away.  The Times is likely to adopt the metered system, where readers can look at a certain number of free stories before being asked to subscribe.  The Daily Intel column speculates [...]

MediaNews to test pay wall early next year

MediaNews Group, which operates 54 newspapers in 11 states, plans to test partial pay walls at two of its newspaper websites in early 2010.  The Enterprise-Record in Chico, CA, and the York, PA, Daily Record will require a fee for access to premium content.  ”We don’t think putting everything behind a pay wall works, but [...]