The Wall Street Journal’s online edition will be available free for five days beginning November 8. The New York Times is making online content available that used to be “walled-off.” It’s not alone, according to Frank Barnako’s Internet Daily. Citing an article by Mark Glaser in the Online Journalism Review, Barnako notes that the increasing openness of news through non-traditional sources has forced the issue. Blogs that cover news, along with Google News, have been a warning shot across the bow of traditional journalism. According to Richard Deverell, head of BBC News Interactive, “We either try to reverse that trend, which is likely to be futile, or we facilitate it.”

Barnako, whose daily updates have been part of my regular reading for a couple years, is now blogging himself.