November 12, 2014

Last week Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, announced its plans to tear down its subscriber paywall in favor of a free digital tablet edition. The investment, which could cost as much as $14 million, will occur over the course of the next year and will be done in partnership with La Presse, which launched its own interactive tablet edition in April 2013. In a press release announcing the partnership, Star publisher John Cruickshank said he…