{"id":19850,"date":"2017-12-15T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:36:05","slug":"n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Times Scales Back Free Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-01\/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe\">Gerry Smith<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15825942\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-01\/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe\"><p>The New York Times, seeking to amass more paid subscriptions in an era of non-stop, must-read headlines, is halving the number of articles available for free each month.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Friday, most non-subscribers will only be able to read five articles rather than 10 before they&rsquo;re asked to start paying. It&rsquo;s the first change to the paywall in five years. A basic Times subscription, with unlimited access to the website and all news apps, is $15 every four weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Smith (via Hacker News): The New York Times, seeking to amass more paid subscriptions in an era of non-stop, must-read headlines, is halving the number of articles available for free each month. Starting Friday, most non-subscribers will only be able to read five articles rather than 10 before they&rsquo;re asked to start paying. It&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-05T18:36:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"3c32d209-1b4a-4751-8cde-75d78ba35a20","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-05T18:36:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APDLSCRtKR1GM3nXXi6NaIA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,994,1456,96],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-media","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19851,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}