Mail in May 2013, he said the new Frank would have a metered paywall, which would enable readers to read a few stories before having to pay "about 50 cents a day, or $15 a month." In the past two years, hundreds of publications, large and small, have erected paywalls. Bate pointed to Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish, which instituted a metered paywall earlier this year, as a financial model for the new Frank. Bate is featured prominently in the 2001 muckraking documentary film The Frank Truth'' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. References Businesspeople from Ottawa Canadian male journalists Canadian magazine founders Canadian magazine publishers (people) English emigrants to Canada English male journalists Journalists from Ontario Living people Musicians from Ottawa 1947 births