Newsday Starts Charging for Website & Columnist Quits

An article in The New York Times this Sunday explained that Saul Friedman, a columnist for Newsday for over 20 years (and wrote for newspapers for over 50 years), quit his job last week as a reaction to the newspaper's recent decision to charge for some access to its online content. Cablevision is the owner of the newspaper, and only customers of Cablevision's ISP and those who have a paid subscription to Newsday's print version will continue to have access to all of the web archives and current news. But now there will be a $5 weekly charge for others who wish to see much of the website.