One thing I will point out is that at the Wall Street Journal by 2000 nearly all content was paid with one exception -- Opinion Journal (featuring op-ed commentaries).

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The Wall Street Journal, which charged for its online content from day one, has been doing pretty well.

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The Wall Street Journal is already doing so, of course, but with a different model than the Times: The Journal offers a certain amount of free content for sampling, and its articles are all indexed in Google.

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Lehmann, the lead author of the paper which is published in the journal Nature Geosciences, said that the black carbon content of soils in the study ranged from zero to 82 percent of soil organic carbon.

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If your name is mentioned in a police blotter or jilted lover's blog post, let alone a negative article in The Wall Street Journal, you have very little chance of getting that content removed from the Web.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, YouTube is expected to announce multiple deals with media companies and celebrities to produce content for original channels on the streaming site.

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Led by Steve Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur who started Court TV, and Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher, Journalism Online is building an iTunes-like model for micropayments of media content.

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But under the original contract used in the case decided yesterday, the copyright holder, Las Vegas Review-Journal parent Stephens Media, signed over only the right to sue while retaining an exclusive license to the content itself.

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While some publications, including The Wall Street Journal, have had online subscription services for years, the industry as a whole has waded gingerly into paid content.

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