LAT Paywall Hits Competitor Where It Hurts

Ben Baeder, once the deputy metro editor at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, now runs news website downeybeat.com. There, he works with a couple of writers and a photographer to try and live up to the site slogan “Breaking News First.”

Today however, his thoughts were given over to a competing news operation, the LA Times. Nine days after the paper activated a website paywall, Baeder has already hit his article limit:

What a weird feeling I have.

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