Nearly a year after being taken over by News Corp, The Wall Street Journal is undergoing a major redesign, including adding back doors where you can access paid content without
paying.
The new site has more free general and lifestyle news, but is standing firm with its paid business content. But the paper is making everything free (at least for the time
being) if accessed through other sites, such as its new Blackberry application and links on social networks. The number of WSJ readers on social networks is significant: 39% on Facebook and 48% on
sibling MySpace.
Subscriber-only articles are also readable for free if you cut and paste the headline and view the story in Google News.