Social TV Roundup: Paid Business Model Edition By Steve Safran on Aug. 2, 2010 - 7:23 AM Global Post, which hoped for 25,000 paying members, has fewer than 500. Is changing pricing model. Good for them for being transparent. (Disclosure: I worked for Global Post boss Phil Balboni.) Times of London, which lost 90 percent of its readership when it erected a pay wall, is giving iPad readers another free month. TV host Peter Funt writes in WSJ that people will pay for content. Incorrectly compares web to HBO, satellite radio. News Corp. considering hiring tablet-only news team for subscription service. Advertisement