Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 2:04pm on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era is one of a growing number of newspapers ready to try charging online readers.

The New York Times reported on February 2, 2010:

"Extracting payment from online readers has been called everything from the next great folly of print journalism to its salvation, but to get a glimpse of how it really looks, head to Lancaster, Pa.

Specifically, head to the offices of The Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era, one of the first handful of news outlets to acknowledge in interviews that it intends, in the next few months, to start using a software system developed by the entrepreneurs Steven Brill, L. Gordon Crovitz and their partners, which they are calling Press+. Others interested include The Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina and GlobalPost, a news site based in Boston.

A very small number of news organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Newsday, already charge online readers, each with a system developed largely in-house, and The New York Times announced recently that it planned to do the same. But with advertising plummeting, many other publishers eager for a new source of revenue are considering making the switch, despite the risk of losing audience and advertising."

The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/business/media/03brill.html