The Austin American-Statesman will drop its metered paywall and allow nonsubscribers to read unlimited articles | Nieman Journalism Lab

The Austin American-Statesman will remove its monthly article limit for nonsubscribers, its editor announced.Readers “who aren’t yet subscribers” of statesman.com and hookem.com will no longer be limited in the number of articles they can read in a 30-day period.The Statesmen will lean on subscriber-only articles to convert readers instead. “Subscriber-only stories have led far more people to sign up as subscribers than the monthly limits on our other work,” executive editor Manny García said in the announcement.

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