A note from the Sun

The Las Vegas Sun is joining other media companies across the country that operate their online site as a hybrid free content/subscription content system called a “metered paywall.”

Like so many other media companies, we have made this decision to help defray the enormous costs of generating the editorial content you love to read, and which we are proud to provide to you. Providing fact-based news and information — that essential ingredient to a functioning democracy — is an expensive undertaking. So, what exactly does this mean?

It’s fairly simple. Our award-winning website, lasvegassun.com, will continue to offer readers a lot of free content. However, there will be a cap on the number of stories you can read before being asked to subscribe. Currently, that cap is 10 stories per month, which has become the de facto standard in the industry.

Once you reach the cap, you’ll be asked to subscribe in order to read more. At all times the section fronts on our site will remain free, so that you can get a quick overview of the news of the day there without limit.

Similarly, plenty of digital content produced by our company will remain free. That includes the entertainment content from the Las Vegas Weekly as well as material produced with our fantastic content partners.

Why are we taking this step? Two main reasons.

First, producing quality editorial content is a very expensive proposition, and providing it entirely for free on the web has proven to be difficult to sustain for most