If NYT's Paywall Won't Impact FiveThirtyEight Fans, Who Will It Impact?
Following yesterday’s announcement that The New York Times would be hosting Nate Silver’s popular FiveThirtyEight blog, perhaps as soon as August, statistics enthusiasts in the blog’s comments section worried that the Times‘ forthcoming paywall might impact their rabid consumption of Silver’s analysis.
That fretting may be in vain, The Wrap reports. A Times spokesperson said that the paywall only kicks in after a reader has read a certain number of stories. “The majority of our readers will be unaffected when using the site and will continue to have the same experience they have always had,” the spokesperson said.
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