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New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system.

 


New York Times Finally Decides To Add Online Paywall, Announcement In Weeks
The 'metered' model allows a visitor to come to the site and get a certain amount of articles for free. After the visitor uses up his allotment, then he's asked to pay for more access.

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