The Providence Journal to Post Excerpts Only on Web Site

The Providence Journal will test out an interesting tactic in the “war” between print and online, using its Web site to try to drive readers to purchase the print edition by posting only excerpts of stories on the site, Ted Nesi reported on his WPRI blog.

The newspaper’s original, more conventional plan was to implement a pay wall for local stories, but in a memo to staff from publisher Howard Sutton, obtained by David Scharfenberg of The Providence Phoenix, “Projo.com

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