http://www.thestandard.com./node/124364/comments comments feed. en New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com. New York Times charges readers a web subscription? http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription <p> <p> </p> <p>The New York Times is in financial trouble. The Times is using up a $400 million credit line that ends in May and drawing from its 2011 line of credit. Though the company defends that it is in "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200901u/times-letter">better position than many others in the newspaper business</a>," the Times is looking into a few business deals like selling its stake of the Boston Red Sox and entering a sale-leaseback of their new Times Squares headquarters to stay afloat. </p> <p>Silicon Alley Insider blogger and former financial analyst Henry Blodget suggests that <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/new-york-times-were-not-going-bankrupt-in-may-nyt">the NYT starts charging users</a> $80-$100 a year to read its web content. The Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html"> stopped charging</a> readers to access certain articles by columnists and the newspapers' archives in Sept. 2007. </p> <p>Prediction: The NYT announces that it will charge readers a web subscription by the time it reports Q2 2009 earnings in late August. The Times currently charges readers a fee to access content from 1923 to 1986 and is not defined as a web subscription. </p> <p>Image: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin-prichard/">Kevin Prichard</a>/Flickr </p> http://www.thestandard.com./predictions/nyt-starts-charging-readers-web-subscription#comments co: New York Times display advertising Google Internet Microsoft newspapers NYT online advertising rupert murdoch Software & Web USA Today wall street journal web subscriptions Yahoo Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:20:49 -0500 Yi-Wyn Yen 124364 at http://www.thestandard.com.