Toronto Media Landscape and Personalities

[Jonny5]

CNN announcing they are going to paywall their website shortly. $4/month (USD) required for access to articles beyond the first three or four free ones.

Not many "free" large scale news providers are left anymore. I wonder who else in Canada will go down this road. Imagine CP24 saying you have to pay?

 

[Towered]

CNN announcing they are going to paywall their website shortly. $4/month (USD) required for access to articles beyond the first three or four free ones.

Not many "free" large scale news providers are left anymore. I wonder who else in Canada will go down this road. Imagine CP24 saying you have to pay?

What a joke. I guess I'll go somewhere else for news then!

 

[Jonny5]

What a joke. I guess I'll go somewhere else for news then!

Apparently it will start only for US-based IP addresses. But they will be rolling it out to the rest of the world at some point.

 

[Johnny Au]

Meanwhile, clickbait conspiracy websites generally have no paywall. You get what you pay for.