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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Not Law - "Newsday Columnist Quits Over Paywall, Wants To Be Read"
TechDirt has an entry on the renewed effort of some newspapers to make their online stories pay-for-view that begins:
One of the reasons why the NY Times eventually did away with its old "paywall" was that its big name columnists started complaining that fewer and fewer people were reading them. We've suggested in the past that newspapers who decide to put up a paywall may find that their best reporters decide to go elsewhere, knowing that locking up their own content isn't a good thing in terms of career advancement. So, with Cablevision deciding to put Newday behind a paywall, it didn't take long for some of its columnists to start to bailing.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 3, 2009 09:05 AM
Posted to General News