Via Editor & Publisher, some good news about the New York Times online:
The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13.
“It’s part of our journalistic mission to get people talking on campuses,” says Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager at NYTimes.com. “We wanted to open that up so that college students and professors can have a dialogue.” …
Schiller says the company has “no regrets” putting 22 columnists at the Times and its sister newspaper The International Herald Tribune, archives and other material behind a pay wall.
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Those students who are current subscribers will receive pro-rated funds for their paid subscriptions. Schiller explains that students and faculty will have to register for the service but that it’s self-regulatory.
Bloggers lost a great resource when the Times made its columnists and some other materials available online only to paying customers. At least now students and faculty can read folks like Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Nicholas Kristof, Bob Herbert, Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman. They’re pretty smart sometimes.
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