Three stories rolling in today from the gold standard of aggregate news sites, The Huffington Post, on the current state of the newspaper. First, this video from NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, who once ran the New York Times website. Schiller states her sentiments that newspapers need to be free, stating that the loss of subscriptions will free up a paper for more ad revenue.

Then, this story seen on the Financial Times website, wherein the discussion is about making the content worthy of being paid for. Seems like these two arguments are at odds with one another, with Schiller saying the content is there, let’s just make it free and the Financial Times saying the content isn’t good enough as a consumer good. Very interesting takes.

Lastly, Michael Liedtke of Huff Post brings this story of 28% of newspaper executives weighing subscription or online news fees to save the paper. The models are based on The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Idaho’s Post Register, both of which use a model of subscription to the daily paper gives the audience access to all the news content on the site. Interesting again to link to Schiller due in large part to the New York Times dropping this model years ago to allow free news to all, a service that has been beneficial to those who stay informed, but bad for business.