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Updated Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:22 am TWN, Bloomberg

Fees for news sites likely to cause majority of readers to switch: survey

NEW YORK -- Publishers such as New York Times Co. and MediaNews Group Inc. that plan to charge for access to some content on their Web sites may cause a majority of readers to seek their news elsewhere, according to a survey Tuesday. The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism found 82 percent of those polled said they would get their news on different sites if their preferred newspaper began charging online, while 15 percent would continue to use the site and 3 percent didn't know. Times Co. said in January it is studying how to implement a plan to charge NYTimes.com's visitors who aren't print subscribers after they exceed a certain number of articles per month. MediaNews will set up a similar system in May for two newspapers in Chico, California, and York, Pennsylvania.

Pew surveyed 2,259 adults from Dec. 28 to Jan. 19 and the results have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

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