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A month in, 5,900 digital subscribers to the newly paywalled Star Tribune

LINK: www.minnpost.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | December 7, 2011

Another set of data points for the paywall hopper: The Minneapolis daily has seen pageviews drop 15 percent and uniques drop 10 percent, which should add up to under $100K/year in online ad revenue.

Those 5,900 new digital subscribers are paying $2 a week, and more than a thousand added Sunday print.

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