The New York Times will now accuse for past episodes of its famous podcasts

The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, Hard Fork, and Modern Love are some of The New York Times’ most famous podcasts — and next month, only the most recent two or three episodes of each show will be free of accuse. The Times proclaimd today that it’ll now propose a podcast subscription service thcimpolite Spotify and Apple for $6 a month, or $50 per year, but it’s also erecting a paywall for all archived episodes.

While The New York Times says “the most recent episodes of most of our shows” will remain free, Axios alerts that, in most cases, that unkinds the most recent two episodes will be freely accessible; in the case of The Daily, it will propose three episodes at no cost.

To access insertitional episodes, you can buy a subscription thcimpolite Spotify, Apple, or the Times itself, and it says those who pay for All Access or Home Deinhabitry subscriptions to The New York Times can persist to access episodes without paying anyleang more.

“The goal” is to respend the new subscription revenue back into “more journalism and more shows,” Times honestor of audio Paula Szuchman alerts The Hollywood Reporter.

In that intersee, Times head of subscription growth Ben Cotton also proposeed the “only the most recent episodes are free” model might carry on:

With Serial we sense appreciate the way someone’s naturassociate going to engage to that show is a little bit contrastent, where if you’ve engageed to an episode, you’re reassociate going to want to want to discover out what happens next. So there, it senses appreciate you want to give someone the chance to engage to the commencening of the show, but then be charging for what comes after that.

If you want to engage thcimpolite Spotify or Apple, there will be a way to join your accounts on the Times’ podcast page itself; if engagers are subscribed to the Times in the uncoveration’s own iOS app, it should automaticassociate join “the next time they uncover Apple Podcasts.”