Monday, April 02, 2012

GateHouse Media newspapers to create website paywalls

Sometime this month, The Carthage Press, Neosho Daily News, and other GateHouse Media newspapers will start charging for some of the content on their websites.

The plan is mentioned in an article from the March 27 Moberly Monitor-Index:


Visitors to moberlymonitor.com will still get unlimited access to the website’s homepage, breaking news, obituaries, weather, blogs and multimedia offerings. But most other articles on the website, including general local news, entertainment, lifestyle, and in-depth sports stories, will fall into a paid category.
After reading 15 pay-category articles, readers who do not subscribe to the newspaper will be asked to pay a monthly subscription to gain unlimited access for the site.
I haven't heard what the local newspapers will charge, but Moberly prices are as follows:

Print subscribers will soon receive full website access as part of their subscription. Non-print subscribers can get full website access for $10.99 a month, or $131.88 annually. 

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