The New York Times Will Hit One Million Digital Subscribers Soon. But Does It Matter?

Posted
by: Edmund Lee | re/code

The New York Times is poised to hit 1 million paying digital subscribers sometime this summer, CEO Mark Thompson said during the company’s earnings call last week — a significant figure that’s as much a psychological milestone as a financial one.

If you don’t remember, the Times struggled internally for years about whether it should charge for online content. There were concerns, nearly existential, about upsetting the code of digital information, which, ostensibly, was meant to be free.

Comments

No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here