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Murdoch: News industry must charge for content. But who will pay?

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The latest in the ongoing saga of Rupert Murdoch versus the BBC and Google News is that the News Corp boss maintains that the industry must charge for content. In an event at George Washington University yesterday, he said search engines were stealing journalism and ‘tapping into a river of gold’ by aggregating content. But will people ever get used to paying to read articles online, especially when free services will remain?

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