Totally Free Local News Sources Shrinking
The Journal Times will go behind a pay wall starting Monday.
Getting local news is going to start costing online readers of The Journal Times. Starting Monday, readers will be limited to 15 free stories per month or they can pay $7 a month for a digital subscription. Readers who subscribe to the print version can add unlimited access for $2 more per month with the first two months free. According to a letter to readers from Publisher Mark Lewis, the newspaper has invested a lot of resources to beef up its Internet presence and print subscribers have been paying for part of that investment. Implementing the pay wall, Lewis writes, will help the paper deliver the news that readers can use. "We have beefed up our online staff and increased the depth, scope and immediacy of our web coverage," he said in…
Heather Asiyanbi
10:13 pm on Sunday, June 10, 2012
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