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title: "Daring Fireball: Charging for Access to News Sites"
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# Daring Fireball: Charging for Access to News Sites

[Gruber points out that free access](http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/charging_for_access_to_news_sites) to news content means news organizations will need to lighten their staffing models, requiring every one in the organization to contribute content. The old model with executives and a heavy number of employees in a company is going the way of the dinosaurs.