ESPN The Magazine to charge for access

"ESPN The Magazine, the decade-old print offshoot of Walt Disney (DIS)'s wildly successful cable sports network, is about to begin charging for access to its Web site.

• In August the company will essentially shutter its espnthemag.com site and merge almost all of the magazine's Web content—which includes articles and ongoing Web video series—into its ESPN Insider service, which costs $6.95 a month, or $39.95 a year. (The Insider will continue to be free to magazine subscribers for one year.)...

The Insider has 350,000 paying subscribers, say executives familiar with the figures, and its parent site ESPN.com remains free."...from BusinessWeek.com via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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