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Newsday To Charge For Online Content
Long Island, NY (AHN) – The online version of Newsday will begin charging for access to content beginning next week.
The announcement was made in a report in Newsday as well as a printed statement by publisher Terry Jimenez. The subscription service will begin Oct. 28.
While some of the stories will continue to be free, most content on newsday.com will require a subscription of $5 a week unless the reader is already a subscriber to Newsday or Cablevision, which owns the paper, according to the account.
Free content will include the home page, school closing, weather, obituaries, classified and entertainment listings.
The $5 weekly fee is the same that the newspaper charges new subscribers for the print edition.
Cablevision claims a customer base of 75 percent of Long Island residences.
In making the change, Newsday joins a small group of print media who charge for online content: the Wall Street, Financial Times, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Albuquerque Journal.
Newsday.com’s subscription cost is at the high end of those charging for online content. The Wall Street Journal charges $1.99 a week, while the Democrat-Gazette is $5.95 a month. The Albuquerque Journal is $110 a year.
The Denver Post recently lowered the subscription price of its print edition to $5 a month.
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