THE New York Times Co said yesterday it will begin charging readers who don’t subscribe to its newspaper on March 28 for content on the newspaper’s website.

A NEW YORK TIMES reporter “committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud,” including stealing material from other newspapers, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts, according to an investigation conducted by the paper.

TheStreet.com posted a loss of $ 24.6m in the fourth quarter of last year on charges related to shutting down its UK operation and other write-downs.