MediaNews Set To Launch Pay Walls Next Year

MediaNews Group, one of the largest newspaper companies in the U.S., has decided to launch pay walls on Web sites of two of its papers early next year.

The pay walls will first go into effect for the The Enterprise-Record in Chico, Calif. and The York Daily Record in Pennsylvania, and then may be extended to other MediaNews newspaper properties, Editor & Publisher reports.

“We wanted to get sites that were not metro sites for the same reason that you don’t open on Broadway,” Howard Saltz, MediaNews’ vice president for content development, told E&P.

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