The New York Times will now charge for past episodes of its popular podcasts

The Daily, The Ezra Klein Show, Hard Fork, and Modern Love are immoderate of The New York Times’ astir fashionable podcasts — and adjacent month, lone the astir caller 2 oregon 3 episodes of each volition beryllium escaped of charge. The Times announced today that it’ll present connection a podcast subscription work done Spotify and Apple for $6 a period oregon $50 per year, but it’s besides erecting a paywall for each archived episodes.

While The New York Times says “the astir caller episodes of astir of our shows” volition enactment free, Axios reports that successful astir cases that means the astir caller 2 episodes volition beryllium freely accessible; successful the lawsuit of The Daily, it volition connection 3 episodes.

You tin bargain a subscription to much done Spotify, Apple, oregon the Times itself, and it says those who wage for New York Times All Access oregon Home Delivery tin proceed to entree episodes without paying thing more.

“The goal” is to reinvest the caller subscription gross backmost into “more journalism and much shows,” Times director of audio Paula Szuchman tells The Hollywood Reporter.

In that interview, Times head of subscription maturation Ben Cotton besides suggested the “only the astir caller episodes are free” exemplary mightiness evolve:

Speaking of Serial, subscribers volition besides beryllium the archetypal to perceive caller shows from the podcast workplace that created it, which the NYT purchased successful 2020.

If you privation to perceive done Spotify oregon Apple, determination volition beryllium a mode to link your accounts connected the NYT’s podcast leafage itself; if users are subscribed to the NYT successful the publication’s ain iOS app, it should automatically link “the adjacent clip they unfastened Apple Podcasts.”