MediaNews Group has about two dozen paywall experiments up and running, including ones at its papers in Vallejo and Vacaville in the Bay Area, but will that continue now that it has named anti-paywall guy John Paton as the new CEO? Paton plays it close to the vest in a Q&A with PaidContent:
It is too early for me to figure the future of Media News Group’s paywall experiment. They have just started and I have to come up to speed on their rationale for launching and criteria for judging success.