The paper insists most readers won't be hit.

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They believe mobile devices -- whether it's the iPhone or e-readers -- are new enough that consumers won't balk at paying for the digital content.

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Times Co. executives have said that only about 15% of the paper's online readers are "heavy users, " meaning the vast majority probably won't trigger a payment requirement.

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Sutter's work on the Change the List series -- in which readers voted on social justice issues for him to cover -- won the Batten Medal for public service journalism from the American Society of News Editors.

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The American writer once won a bet that he could write a story in just six words, and we asked our readers to do the same.

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