Doubt charging for NYT will work. FT and WSJ can get away with it because their financial reporting is actually worth paying for by biz people.<p>I think what is really interesting to observe from all of this is the fact that leaving families in charge of companies can lead to innovation stagnation.<p>WaPo got lucky in that Buffett came aboard decades ago and steered the company towards good capital allocation. Those kinds of lessons served them well and they managed to purchase businesses to support their journalism operations (Kaplan).<p>But the Sulzberger family (NYT) pretty much stuck with journalism. The Bancroft family (WSJ) lucked out in that their product is good enough to pay for, but early on they had the option of moving into providing financial data services (think Bloomberg) and decided against it. They would have been an absolute beast of a company today if they went that route.