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US newspaper puts up a paywall for its obituaries

After paywalls for commenters comes – wait for it – paywalls for obituaries.

This week LancasterOnline, the website of the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era newspaper in Pennsylvania, started charging readers to access its obituaries section.

Users can read seven obits for free, but if they have eight friends who die in a month, they will have to pay an additional monthly fee of $1.99 (£1.30) to carry on reading. The annual fee is $19.99 (£13).

It is the first paper to adopt a paid content system pioneered by Journalism Online. The details of the system can be found here.

Source: Poynter Online

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