The FT is predicting that most online news will be on a charge model by next year:

"How these online payment models work and how much revenue they can generate is still up in the air," Barber said in a speech at at a Media Standards Trust event at the British Academy last night.

"But I confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organisations will be charging for content."

Here's the problem though: most people won't register, much less pay to get through to a link. And there's this: if the content is behind a paywall, how will search sites index it? If it can't be indexed, it can't be found. I sympathize with the desire to replace the lost revenue from physical papers, but I just don't see this working out.