Earlier this year, the Newport Daily News limited online content to subscribers.

More recently, media mega-foot Rupert Murdoch began talking about building pay walls on his Web sites and blocking them from Google's search engines.

Now, as Ted Nesi reports at the Providence Business News, Belo -- the parent of the Providence Journal -- appears headed in the same direction:

Within six months, A. H. Belo plans to start charging for one of its three newspapers: The Journal, The Dallas Morning News or The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif., James Moroney, an executive vice president at Dallas-based A. H. Belo and The Morning News’ publisher, told Bloomberg News.

He said the company is still figuring out the right model for an online pay wall. The Journal’s Web site, Projo.com, currently makes all of its content available for free, whereas print subscribers pay $364 a year for home delivery of the newspaper, according to the site.

Moroney said A. H. Belo has not made any decision on whether to remove its content from Google, and a change in policy is not “imminent.” Blocking the search giant would be done as part of a larger strategy for changing how the company offers news on the Web, he said.