Extracted from NPA:
Media is to launch iPhone apps for its masthead news sites within six months – and it will charge readers. iPhone apps for The Age, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald and WA Today websites are in development, according to Darren Burden, Director of News and Platforms at Fairfax Digital.
No decision has been made on the charge for each app. The new apps would go beyond a normal web browsing experience, he promised. Fairfax has only recently upgraded the design and layout of mobile versions of its websites.
“The key benefit of the app over a mobile site is that an application can use the native part of the phone, and you can use parts like the address,” he said.
I don’t think a fee for an iTunes app counts as a paywall, which is how the opening sentence reads to me.