翻译文章 It is usually a common practice that journal websites offer readers their free onli

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It is usually a common practice that journal websites offer readers their free online editions of articles and other information. However, America’s most popular newspaper website announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has become the biggest publisher yet to set out plans for a pay wall around its digital offering,abandoning the accepted practice that Internet users will not pay for news.
Struggling with a decline of advertising and a downward tendency in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a “metered” model at the beginning of 2011. Readers will be required to pay when they have exceeded (超过) a set number of its online articles per month.
The decision puts the 159-year-old newspaper on the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鸿沟) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not charge Internet readers.
The New York Time’s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, acknowledged that the idea was a gamble. Boasting a print circulation of 995,000 on weekdays and 1.4 million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, behind the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. While most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can claim national scope—as well as 16 bureaus (办事处) in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and maintains 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world.
But like many in the publishing industry,the paper is in the grip of a serious financial crisis.Its parent company,the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but suffered a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted
a $250 million loan from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet.

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