Reuters will start charging an access fee of $ 34.99 / month. (Source: Getty images) On April 15, British news agency Reuters News – one of the world’s largest news agencies specializing in providing articles, images, graphics and videos for newspapers, radio stations, television stations, Internet and other Other media – notification will start charge for access to news on its website. According to the notice posted on the Reuters homepage, the fee to register an account at Reuters.com will cost 34.99 USD / month – the same as the fee that the competitor of Reuters is Bloomberg financial news agency (US) is applicable to customers. The announcement said Reuters would allow readers to read 5 articles for free, but would then require users to sign up for an account if they want to continue to update information on Reuters.com. It is not clear when Reuters will begin charging for the service. Reuters marketing director Josh London described the move as a “streak digital converter the biggest at Reuters for a decade. ” The fee for readers is a hot topic in the period of traditional printing press revenue decline, while electronic newspapers are struggling about revenue sources. Paywall (roughly translated as “Wall of fees”) will be displayed asking readers to pay or subscribe when they want to read the information in the article. The Wall Street Journal was the first newspaper to adopt a fee-for-readers model in 1996. After that, most major American publications have studied this strategy, including The New York Times – the newspaper is Considered as one of the examples of paywall’s success. In 2018, Reuters’ biggest competitor, Bloomberg, also implemented charging fees for its information. Although not disclosing the number of subscribers, but Bloomberg claims this number is much higher than expected.