20% of Newspapers Now Have Online Paywalls

More than one-fifth of U.S. newspapers now require a paying subscription for full digital access, twice the number that did a year ago.

That's according to News&Tech, whose growing list of newspapers with metered paywalls or some other form of digital subscription plan has surpassed 290. There are 1,387 daily newspapers in the U.S. as of 2009, says a Pew study published earlier this year.

Moves at the Gannett Co. have been largely driving the increase. The company announced in February that it would be bringing paid models to the websites of all 80 of its newspapers by the end of the year, excluding USA Today. McClatchy, the third largest newspaper owner in the U.S., said in it…
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