Both major metro and local newspapers drop their paywalls for Election Day coverage | Talking New Media | The digital publishing website

"The polls are open and the final countdown to the end of Election Year 2016 is near. Then comes the clean-up. Meanwhile, the major newspapers that employ a paywall, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, are dropping them for the day – fearful, no doubt, that readers will go elsewhere if they don’t. After all, readers will be refreshing their browsers constantly tonight to get the latest results and would run up against any metered paywall almost immediately."