Last week, there were rumors about dismantling the paid TimesSelect service. How search-engine friendly are the Top 100 U.S.newspapers on the web? Not enough. Almost a third are are fully gated, with 26 requiring sign-ups to access all content...
TimesSelect launches today, cutting off free access to the publisher's flock of pundits. David Card observes that for the columnists, TimesSelect to an extent means they're leaving "the conversation. The audience for those stories will shrink...