The document discusses different paywall models for news websites. It proposes putting either all stories fully behind a paywall, or putting the first x number of stories a reader wants to consume in front of the paywall with remaining stories behind it. This would determine whether the paywall blocks all content or some, and the value proposition that must be made to non-subscribers to purchase access.

1. Musings about the pay wall

2. Let’s say these are the stories a newsroom produces a day

3. Full story behind the pay wall Truncated version put in front of the pay wall. In many newspaper subscription pay walls, the stories are divided like this.

4. What the news website would look like

5. Where the pay wall resides

6. The value preposition the news organisation will then need to sell to non-subscribers

7. How about...

8. Let x be the number of stories a typical reader wants to consume in a day.

9. Full stories put in front of the pay wall Full stories put behind the pay wall x

10. What the website will consist of

11. Where the pay wall resides

12. The value preposition to non-subscribers

13. Which value preposition works better?