As more and more people come to the web for news and information (you reading this blog for example), publishers, broadcasters, and journalists are all trying to figure out the best route going forward financially. One option that some newspapers are looking at is the paywall. As our sister blog, BayNewser, put it:
The issue is coming to a head. The New York Times is going to decide “within weeks” whether to erect a paywall. And Newsday already has. Some in the journalism business think newspapers won’t be able to survive unless they start charging readers to read their stories on the Web. Others think it’ll be the beginning of the end, as readers flee to free sources of news—with advertisers close behind.
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