Joshua Benton, Director, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University

Dear New York Times: Please Charge Me More Than $5 For Your Web Site.

July 13, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

We all know that The New York Times (NYT) and other papers have been thinking hard about finding ways to charge readers for the news on their web sites, and there’s evidence that the decision-making process is moving along. Bloomberg has reported that a survey of print subscribers included this sentence:

The New York Times website, nytimes.com, is considering charging a monthly fee of $5.00 to access its content, including all its articles, blogs and multimedia.

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