Secret meetings and paywalls

Over at the Huffington Post,James Warren breaks the news of a secret meeting in Chicago with various media organisations.

The subject apparently is how to get people to pay for content.

"Models to Monetize Content" is the subject of a gathering at a hotel

he reports adding that

There's no mention on its website but the Newspaper Association of America, the industry trade group, has assembled top executives of the New York Times, Gannett, E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises and Freedom Communication Inc., among more than two dozen in all.