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Re:NYT reducing number of free articles available before pay... by scott_s on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @10:57AM (#3729537)
You can also listen to NPR without donating.

In the documentary "Page One", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787777/, the then executive editor of the NY Times said that they were basically adopting the NPR model: people who like it will pay for it.

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Re:NYT reducing number of free articles available before pay... by mchafkin on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @12:07PM (#3729974)
That wasn't the executive editor of the NYT, that was Clay Shirky, the news-should-be-free guru. (Referenced here: http://www.sundance.org/festival/article/qa-page-one-a-year-...)

He wasn't speaking on behalf of the Times, he was speaking as an observer who is pretty firmly against pay walls. If you asked someone at the Times what their pay wall is, they'd say its the good old retail news model: Asking customers to pay money for your product.

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