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Should online media charge visitors to view content? Apparently not.

Posted on the November 19th, 2007

Nielsen numbers for online traffic at newspapers released last week show a big jump in unique visitors to the New York Times website for October. This info from Beet.TV —
In reaching 17.5 million uniques, the paper had its best month ever, a Times spokeswoman told me. The numbers are up from 14.6 million in September.. (read more here)
Reason for the jump in traffic, according to a New York Times spokesperson quoted in the piece — the end in September of the feature Times Select that allowed access to some content only via paid subscription.


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