Newsday Plans To Charge For Online News

By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA, New York Times
Thu, 10/22/2009 - 10:55am

Newsday will become one of a handful of U.S. newspapers to charge readers for access to its Web site, in what may be a sign of things to come for a troubled industry.

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