Reports came late this past weekend, that The New York Times would likely start charging for online content. The rumored word is that the content will be metered, making only the first few stories free of charge. From a CNET report on the news:

As readers have increasingly gone online for their news, papers have suffered declining subscriber numbers and lower advertising revenue, resulting in a dramatic industry contraction. Newspaper publishers and the Associated Press have blamed Google and other news-aggregation sites for their woes, leading to threats…