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Washington Post to Charge Online

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The Washington Post confirmed its intention to start charging for access to its website, making it one of the last major American newspapers to do so.

 

SocialCode hires 15 employees from Digg.com

SocialCode, a social media advertising firm and subsidiary of The Washington Post Co., announced Thursday that it has hired 15 members of the engineering team from the social news site Digg. In an interview with The Washington Post, SocialCode chief executive Laura O’Shaughnessy said that the engineers will be working on products that compile and analyze data from social networks’ open graphs to help companies glean more information about their customers. (O’Shaughnessy is the daughter of Washington Post Co. chairman Donald E. Graham.)

 

Is a paywall coming to The Washington Post?

Will you soon have to start paying to use The Post’s Web site? No, not in the short term, and maybe never, if I read the tea leaves correctly.

Senh: Good. I hope not. I'm not sure if it's working for the New York Times. Until it's proven that it works, I think papers should stay put. The Los Angeles Times recently enacted a paywall, similarly to the New York Times. All I know is it hasn't done Variety any good. Since they enacted their paywall, their competitors - mainly Hollywood Reporter - have usurped them in internet traffic.

 

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