Paywalls By Press Gazette Oct 1, 2007 The FT adopts a more porous metered paywall after strong competition from the Wall Street Journal FT in 'third way' move on gated web access Period: Oct 1, 2007 to Mar 27, 2013 Paywalls Sep 17, 2009 The Spectator announces plans to put its magazine content behind a paywall Spectator erects online paywall for mag content Sep 18, 2009 Google boss Eric Schmidt warns paywalls won't work Google boss: Paid-for online news won't work Rupert Oct 6, 2009 The Economist introduces an online paywall Economist.com to introduce new paywall Jan 20, 2010 GNM voices paywall plans for paidContent website Guardian News & Media mulls PaidContent paywall Mar 9, 2010 The FT announces plans to put all video content behind its paywall FT exec says video will go behind paywall in coming months Mar 31, 2010 Johnston Press halts paywall experiment on regional titles Johnston Press halts paywall experiment Apr 20, 2010 The Daily Mail promises it won't introduce a paywall in the future Daily Mail vows not to charge for online news and make ad model pay Apr 22, 2010 Reuters relaunches website, hints at future paywall Reuters relaunches UK website and eyes paywall May 24, 2010 The Times and Sunday Times launch free trial of new paywalled websites New Times sites go live - paywall will be all or nothing Jul 14, 2010 PR Week survey finds 78% don't think Times paywall will work PR Week survey: 78 per cent say they don't think Times paywall will work Sep 16, 2010 The News of the World announces it will shortly introduce an online paywall News of the World behind paywall from October Oct 14, 2010 The News of the World's website relaunches behind a paywall News of The World relaunches behind the paywall Feb 24, 2011 Publisher Emap says paywalls have driven a 25% increase in print subscriptions to its titles Emap: Return of paywalls pushed up subs by 25% Mar 1, 2011 The UK's biggest selling regional, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, announces its paywall plans Wolverhampton's Express & Star 'to introduce paywall' May 10, 2011 The Sun vows to remain outside News International paywall Sun set to remain outside News International paywall Jun 1, 2011 Haymarket says its media titles will go behind paywalls Brand Republic Group to go behind online paywall Jun 30, 2011 The Times announces it now has more than 100,000 digital subscribers Times boasts more than 100,000 digital subscribers Aug 25, 2011 The Herald Scotland announces paywall plans Herald Scotland to introduce metered paywall Oct 10, 2011 The Independent announces plans for a metered paywall for international readers Independent to adopt metered paywall for overseas website readers Jan 18, 2012 The UK's biggest selling regional, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, scraps its paywall after less than a year Express & Star scraps online paywall after nine months Jan 24, 2012 The Greenock Telegraph, one of Scotland's oldest papers, introduces a paywall Scottish daily's website goes behind partial paywall Feb 23, 2012 The Times decides to double digital subscription charge to £4 a week Times to double digital subscription charge to £4 a week Jun 13, 2012 The Times begins publishing comment pieces on its Tumblr blog, outside the paywall Times ventures outside the paywall to launch Tumblr blog Sep 26, 2012 The Times decides to allow Google to crawl its pages behind paywall Times titles to allow Google through their paywall, report Nov 1, 2012 The Telegraph adopts metered paywall for international users Daily Telegraph adopts metered paywall model for international readers Dec 3, 2012 The Daily Mirror breaks ranks with the rest of Fleet Street and introduces its free iPad app Daily Mirror breaks ranks with Fleet Street and launches free iPad app Feb 8, 2013 The New York times says income from subscriptions has overtaken advertising revenue online New York Times says income from subscriptions has overtaken ads for the first time Mar 15, 2013 Andrew Sullivan's relaunched The Dish sees overwhelming success with its metered paywall Andrew Sullivan’s US Dish serves up web funding solution Mar 19, 2013 The Washington Post announces paywall plans The Washington Post to launch a metered paywall this summer Mar 26, 2013 The Sun announces plans for its own paywall The Sun to charge for website access when Premiership video highlights deal kicks in Mar 26, 2013 The Telegraph announces plans for its own metered paywall Rise of the paywalls: Telegraph and The Sun to start charging for website access
