WaPo To Add Paywall

This summer the Washington Post will erect a paywall similar that used by the New York Times, with a limit of 20 free articles per month.

The step, while modest compared with moves by some other publications, marks a major change for The Post, which has shied away from what is known as a paywall for fear of driving away readers and online advertisers. It now joins a long list of other daily publications that charge for content, including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.

“News consumers are savvy; they understand the high cost of a top-quality news gathering operation and the importance of maintaining the kind of in-depth reporting for which The Post is known,” Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Post, said in a statement. “Our digital package is a valuable one, and we are going to ask our readers to pay for it and help support our news gathering as they have done for many years with the print edition.”

What news sites do you presently pay to access?