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The NYTimes ran an article today discussing the future of the online newspaper model. There has been quite a bit of criticism of the way online news sites give free access to current news and either make users pay for archives or not have them complete (or not have archives at all). I’m certainly no fan of the WSJ pay for everything model, either. The Times article breaks down how some of these work and how the newspapers look at everything.

Also interesting:

The New York Times on the Web, which is owned by The New York Times Company, has been considering charging for years and is expected to make an announcement soon about its plans.

One other suggestion I have: local news papers need to prominently display what city and state/province and country they are from. The whole point of WWW is that it is ‘World Wide.’ Don’t they realize that people from all over the world are going to eventually come to their site to read a story? I couldn’t even count the number of times I’ve gone to a local news site and couldn’t or had to work to find out where in the world it was from.

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