NYT Close to Paid Online Content Plan

The New York Times is reportedly close to deciding on some kind of paid-Web strategy, the New York Observer reported today.

The paper states that Executive Editor Bill Keller told staffers on Wednesday that two proposals were being “strongly considered.”

“One includes a ‘meter system,’ in which the reader can roam freely on the Web site until hitting a predetermined limit of word-count or page views, after which a meter will start running and the reader is charged for movement on the site thereafter,” the Observer said.

The other is described as a “membership” system.

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