If 2013 was the year of the Great Paywall experiment in Internet news, perhaps 2014 will come in like a wrecking ball, blasting holes in the theory that everyone should pay for accessing news online.

At least that’s one scenario suggested by recent developments in the experimental paywalls that news organizations have been imposing and tweaking on their websites at an accelerated pace since The New York Times instituted its metered paywall in 2011.

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