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MediaPost: ‘Variety,’ ‘Newsday’: Pay Walls Mean Fewer Page Views

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"As Hollywood trade publication Variety has joined the select few publications with an online pay wall, it has seen page views drop more than 40%, according to Nielsen figures. The number of unique visitors has fallen a lesser 18%, but that could be attributable to Variety allowing users to view up to five articles for free."

New York Times: Columnist Not Only Quits, Thinks Web Site Shouldn’t Charge

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Saul Friedman ... who had written a column for Newsday since 1996, quit last week over the paper’s decision to require some readers to pay for access to its Web site. ... 'My column has been popular around the country, but now it was really going to be impossible for people outside Long Island to read it.' That includes him; living outside Washington, he is not a subscriber to Newsday or Cablevision."