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title: The Newspaper is dead
date: "2002-10-30T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1061
description: I’m noting another failure in the online pay-model as The Newspaper Today shuts down. It’s a significant early example of the struggle to monetize digital news through subscriptions rather than free access.
keywords: [paid content, journalism, business models, paywalls, digital media, subscription models]
---

[The Newspaper Today is dead](http://www.thenewspapertoday.com/). Yet another blow to the pay-model. [via Netahoy](http://www.netahoy.org/mt/archives/000184.htm)