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Today, one of the major newspaper websites in America stated that free online news reading is approaching its end. The New York Times has turned into the biggest publisher yet to (26) plans for a payment of its digital products, (27) the accepted rule that people who use Internet will not need to pay for news.
In order to struggle (28) the disappearance of advertising and a reduction in street corner newspaper sales, The New York Times (29) to take in a "metered" model early in 2011. If readers have (30) a set number of its online articles every month, they will have to pay some charge.
As a result, the motion puts the quite old newspaper (31) the charging side which gets a daily-wide gap(鸿沟) in the media industry. One the other hand, other famous newspapers, among which is the Guardian, have expressed they will not (32) those who use Internet to read, and other certain papers, (33) London’s Evening Standard, have racially gone further in giving up readership revenue by the way of delivering (34) editions. Meanwhile, one of the New York Times’ publisher (35) that it is a gamble to move this step: "To a certain extent, this is a (36) , in which the web is going as we think. "
With a great number of print (37) —995,000 on weekdays and 1,400,000 on Sundays, The New York Times is the number three bestseller in American, which is (38) the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. (39) most US papers devote to some city, The New York Times is one of the few that can (40) general scope which owns 16 bureaus in the New York area, as well as 11 offices all around the home and (41) 26 bureaus in other parts of the world.
However, (42) many media in the publishing industry, the (43) financial crisis is also influencing the newspaper. The New York Times Company, its parent company, possesses 15 papers, but (44) a huge loss of $ 70 million in the past nine months before September, meanwhile, at present, it also accepted a $ 250 million (45) from Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, to balance its capital.

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