Detroit News website now subscriber only?

**Brich** · October-03-12, 12:09 AM

I don't know if this is some sort of glitch, but when I click on a Detroit News article, I am now prompted to enter username/password. I am curious if others have this problem or if maybe is just a web browser problem.

ETA: All four browsers do the same thing. It is imperfect, but it is the beginning of a paywall, methinks.

**Vic01** · October-03-12, 02:22 AM

Works OK for me. It just let me click & open the Godbee affair article... didn't bother to read it, though, just came back here.

**rooms222** · October-03-12, 07:11 AM

I have gotten that error before, and it goes away. Supposedly all the Gannett papers are going paywall with 15-20 free articles a month if you don't subscribe. The Freep is the Gannett one, but I thought I heard both papers here were going to do it.... Indianapolis just switched over last month....

**townonenorth** · October-03-12, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by rooms222

I have gotten that error before, and it goes away. Supposedly all the Gannett papers are going paywall with 15-20 free articles a month if you don't subscribe. The Freep is the Gannett one, but I thought I heard both papers here were going to do it.... Indianapolis just switched over last month....

I don't understand why they haven't done it by now. Too many sites, including this one, piggyback on their content, without any compensation. I suppose that when that happens, there will be a mad rush for SOME to get the digital subscription. I can't imagine depending on the TV news sites to get my print news.

**iheartthed** · October-03-12, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by townonenorth

I don't understand why they haven't done it by now. Too many sites, including this one, piggyback on their content, without any compensation. I suppose that when that happens, there will be a mad rush for SOME to get the digital subscription. I can't imagine depending on the TV news sites to get my print news.

Should the Detroit News pay DetroitYes part of the ad revenue that is generated when a reader from here clicks on one their links?

**downtownguy** · October-03-12, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by rooms222

ISupposedly all the Gannett papers are going paywall with 15-20 free articles a month if you don't subscribe.

Good luck finding 15 articles worth reading in these old rags anyway. They're not what they used to be.

**townonenorth** · October-03-12, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Should the Detroit News pay DetroitYes part of the ad revenue that is generated when a reader from here clicks on one their links?

No, because if they went to a paywall, the link would not exist for you to link to without a subscription, similar to the Crain's site.

**Wesley Mouch** · October-03-12, 11:55 AM

I'd consider paying, if they'd stop foisting those Netflix popup windows on me.

Am also not so fond of flat-fee paywalls. I'll pay for the NYTimes, because I know there's enough good content. I do like reading the local papers online -- but frankly only in very limited quantity -- because there's just so little quantity of what I want to read. So I think I'll probably do without.

They need to find a better model than paywall. You can't really afford to subscribe to all of the 20 newspapers you'd like to read. But I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee for some sort of collective access.

Well, the papers missed the internet coming. This'll just help seal their fate.

**RO_Resident** · October-03-12, 03:01 PM

The Detroit News has been making changes to their server. The newspaper used to resolve to detnews.com, now it goes to detroitnews.com

Paywall? It wouldn't surprise me. I wonder if it will be as porous as the NY Times' current one.