Times Select is FREE!

I’ve been in class literally all day, so I’m just reading news of this now. It appears that The New York Times has made mostly all of the former-subscription-based Times Select free to the masses.

Additionally, the newspaper is allowing access to their archives from 1987 to the present and from 1851 to 1922. Select articles between 1923 and 1986 will be free and some will be charged for.

This is good news to me since I often linked to articles that sat behind the Times Select wall. Now, I don’t have to worry about any of you not having a Times Select account to read the news I’m reading (note: previously, it was “free” to get access to Times Select if you had a “.edu” email address). It was such a bother before to link to stories if I knew that most of you readers couldn’t access it. That is now a thing of the past!

Here’s an official letter from Vivian Schiller, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of The New York Times, on the decision to set Times Select free.