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CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall
The publication aims to bolster its business with digital subscriptions.
The experiment will test similar subscription models to those used by publications like The New Yorker, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, with CNNreportedly hoping to bring in additional revenue amid a decline in cable TV viewership. A “metered” paywall feature is set to launch sometime in early October that will require CNN’s more frequent readers to pay for access after exhausting a nonspecified number of free articles. CNN began testing a similar “registration wall” feature earlier this year that blocked access to certain articles unless readers provided their email address.
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