>>uptown+(OP)
"Reuters.com will remain free for a preview period, but will require users to register after five stories. It is not immediately clear when it will begin charging."
Reuters reporting about Reuters in the third person is amusing. "We asked ourselves when we would begin charging but we didn't know."
>>bombca+u6
I used to work at Reuters (last century) - in technology, but had occasional contact with the news side. They would treat it as a badge of honour to be the first to publish stories about Reuters - however embarrassing. There was no possibility of interference by management.
I don't know if that's the case now or how many other publishers would live by those rules.