If you are a student, the New York Times will now allow you to have access to their premium content (TimesSelect) for free. Technically, you don’t have to be a student. All that is required is an email address with the “edu” top level domain.
Some universities offer “edu” email addresses to their alumni as well, so if you’re lucky enough to have one of these addresses, you can still access TimesSelect for free. Visitors to Freakonomics have noted that many current students located outside the United States do not have “edu” email addresses. Unfortunately, they will miss out on this offer.
Updated February 10, 2011 and originally published March 13, 2007. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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Hmmmm. now I’m glad my father-in-law is a professor!
Well actually I meant it’s one more reason why I’m glad my father-in-law is a professor! ooops.
I have an alumna.edu address and used the link to sign up for this but stopped at the point where it asked when I would graduate. I guess I can only lie up to a point about being a student.
given the countless avenues for news that is free to read, I don’t know how successful the new york times will be charging for content.