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The Irish Times is one of the latest to launch a free website, after being subscription-only for around five years.

According to PaidContent.co.uk, the site itself will have richer content and will allow readers to interact more successfully with each other and with the newspaper staff.

The Irish Times is currently integrating its newsroom. "In a new world where trust and accuracy are often the casualties of speed," it will also seek to further co-ordinate print and online content.

"The move to a free Irish Times on the web follows in the recent footsteps of many leading newspaper titles in the world today, among them the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times," wrote the Times.


Source: PaidContent.co.uk through David Black, IrishTimes.com

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La Tribune opens archives, another news site edges towards free
User traffic increases after the closure of TimesSelect
UK: Guardian integration/ away from editorial funnel towards dual overhead

The website of French business daily La Tribune has opened the near-totality of its online archives, reported Rue89 and AFP.

The only remaining paid-for articles are those of the current day's print edition and the nine previous ones.

"Globally, we made a little revenue with the sale of our archived content, but relatively little. Since we have a model of a free online site paid by advertising, we hope that the increase in the number of page views will translate into a mechanical increase of ad revenue," said Olivier Provost, Editor-in-Chief of latribune.fr.

La Tribune's move comes as a growing number of newspaper websites move to a free online model (or rather, a model paid by advertisers rather than by users directly) and open up their archives.

Even the monthly publication The Atlantic opened its paywall in January. Last year, nytimes.com removed its TimesSelect paywall, and since then user traffic has soared, further putting into question the viability of the online paid-for model. Yet some papers have gone the other route, such as the Guardian and Observer, or the Wall Street Journal, which has kept its paywall despite initial talks to remove it.

La Tribune was acquired from luxury group LVMH by NextRadio TV chief Alain Weill at the beginning of the year.

Source: AFP Mail

In The Guardian’s review for new media, Jeff Jarvis calls 2007 “the year of Facebook,” as social networking and Facebook were discovered en masse by a wider international community. He also discusses the end of the paywall and the rise of Google.

A short bit of news, in the wake of Guardian Unlimited reaching its record number of unique visitors during October. One might think that The New York Times would have more online readers than the Guardian. Not so.

Only a month has passed since New York Times ended the subscription-only TimesSelect, but readers seem to have caught on fast. Within the past month the now free Op-Ed section of NYTimes.com has more than doubled in unique visitors.

After freeing up some of its current articles and launching audio versions of its editions, the venerable British weekly, The Economist, is poised to put it's content dating from 1843 online in The Economist Historical Archive. The move follows other papers such as the New York Times and the Guardian.

You might have seen news about Radiohead releasing its latest album for free – letting users choose how much they want to choose to pay for it. Besides implications for music fans, there are parallels with the news industry.

FT.com, which was one of the few major newspaper websites to keep content behind a paywall, is taking a first step towards its removal. “Casual” readers will be able to read articles and data up to 30 times a month for free, starting in mid-October.

Shortly after closing down its TimesSelect paywall, The New York Times is launching a branding initiative that could be considered anecdotal in the online future, changing its traditional motto into “All the News That’s Fit to Click.”

About a year ago, the Editors Weblog predicted that NYTimes.com would suffer from its move to restrict access to op-ed columnists through TimesSelect. A non-scientific look at the situation, a few days after TimesSelect was pulled down shows that this is the case.

The Wall Street Journal’s new owner, Rupert Murdoch, has again made a case for taking WSJ.com free, hours after The New York Times announced it was pulling down TimesSelect.

The New York Times announced the shuttering of its online subscription service, TimesSelect. The obvious question: is this the end of the paid-for online model altogether? How will the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) website, the Web’s largest paid-for subscription website, react? The Editors Weblog collected the insight of media analyst Philip Stone, Ali Rahnema, Corporate Development Director at the Irish Times, and Daniel Bernard, General Manager of WSJ Online.

The New York Times Co. announced that it will end its paid online service TimesSelect, in light of the changing online users landscape, hoping to generate sufficient ad revenue from the increased traffic that will result.

There have been recent talks about freeing WSJ.com, just as The New York Times is also deciding whether to drop its TimesSelect service. But would this be a worthwhile business strategy for the world’s largest paid-for subscription service?

Since its launch, the New York Times online sub, TimesSelect, has been praised by some, criticized by most: even opinion within the walls of the paper was radically mixed. Now, it seems that after almost two years of existence, TimesSelect may be on the way out.

In a recent interview with Online Media Daily, Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com discussed positive developments and plans for marketing and growth.

New York Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal has said he wants to expand Internet opinion content, especially behind the TimesSelect pay wall.

21,000 new subscribers have signed up for TimesSelect since The New York Times has made its paid-for service free for academics. How does this affect considerations of online business models, and does it mean the upcoming TimesReader will be successful?

The New York Times has given details concerning its Times Reader, powered by Microsoft. Times Reader will officially launch March 27 and start as a subscription service, which will be included with Times’ home-delivery subscriptions.

TimesSelect is offering a unique and attractive deal to academics: the New York Times’ subscription service will be free to any registered students and faculty with an .edu email address.