NY Times Tests A Paywall With A Regional Paper
from the and-what-will-they-learn dept
Last year, the NY Times announced plans to implement a paywall in 2011. We're not entirely sure what they've been working on over the year between the announcement and the actual implementation (as many of the "leaked" details seemed to contradict other comments), but apparently the company is quietly testing a paywall on a separate local newspaper, the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, MA. The idea is to hide certain local content behind the paywall -- which will charge a whopping $14.95 per month to access. Now, looking around, it certainly does appear that the Telegram & Gazette is really the only major news source in Worcester (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find anything else significant). However, with various local news operations springing up all over the place, it certainly seems like it could make sense for one of them to quickly target Worcester and get a nice jump in traffic.![Hide This Hide this](https://ii.techdirt.com/s/t/i/topclose.png)
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Not many expense accounts.
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the pay wall humm
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the pay wall humm
the other is central mass news (hourly) that is making way so the T&G has it's work cut out for them. Note that this is local only news.
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you better include fo rthat price:
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fail
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One feature I did like was that the comments on some articles were generally far more thoughtful, mature, and well-written than (for example) CNN, which are downright depressing in both their ignorance and typical venom. Of course I haven't seen comments for some time, I have no idea why they took that away.
A pay wall will only ensure that I never read the NYT again. No great loss, really.
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I had a free subscription....
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Not many expense accounts.
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Re: Not many expense accounts.
That doesn't really work for local reporting. Or for 99% of the NYT.
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Worcester
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5 readers will pay.. on second thought
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