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The Times, they are a-chargin’

New York Times to charge for online content early next year

The New York Times has announced it will begin charging for “frequent access” to its website beginning in early 2011. Visitors to NYTimes.com will receive a certain number of articles for free, before being prompted to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Print edition subscribers will receive full access to the site. Newspapers have struggled for years to find a way to monetize their online content, and New York Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said “we can’t get this halfway right or three-quarters right. We have to get this really, really right.”

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