• EConsultancy, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 11:35 PM

New York Times chair Arthur Sulzberger made clear that his paper will not cut off its content from the crawl of search engines. Though details for The Times' metered model have not been finalized, Sulzberger says that Web surfers will be able to get to The Times for free through social and search links: "People will have a chance to go to the site and read a certain number of pages. Free. We also are going to keep the social networks open. If somebody is sent a link to a New York Times article, they can open the link," reports the eConsultancy blog.

Paywalls are increasingly seen as a way to help the beleaguered newspaper industry, notes Star News. Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch looked at reducing that paper's paywall when he bought the newspaper; now he's imposing paywalls on two of his British newspapers. That move is causing one blogger to defect. New Yorker editor David Remnick defends the paywalls at his magazine.

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