The Washington Post plans to introduce a paywall, which
will require users to pay to view more than section fronts on the paper’s
online web site, by mid-2013. Individual stories would not be available outside
the paywall.
The Post is losing circulation faster than the industry
average.
The New York Times has a paywall which print subscribers
can access without additional charge, but the Times can be printed around the
country. The Post doesn’t have that capability to offer an online/print package even though 90% of its online audience lives beyond its metropolitan area.
More than 360 newspapers are expected to charge for
online use of content by the end of the year. Paywalls affect about
one-third of newspaper readers.
The Post has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes, the most famous
being by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the Watergate scandal
that forced President Richard Nixon to resign.
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