Earlier this week, SaltWire Network announced a new metered online subscription model that would keep spot news and breaking news available at no charge, while "premium content" will be available on its website only through subscription. "We've really challenged our journalists to look deeper into stories so we can get the story behind the story," he told CBC Radio's St. John's Morning Show. Lever said the company launched the same subscription model with The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, N.S. Paywalls abandonedBut the new model is not a paywall that would require user to pay to access any and all articles. The Telegram in St. John's is one of the newspapers that will be moving to SaltWire's new subscription model.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2019 21:22 UTC