Rupert Murdoch has just launched The Times paywall. Arch rival BBC Online is soon to launch its redesigned site. And a ‘Save the Daily Mirror’ Facebook page has launched as even more staff are cut. Last year most commentators predicted a slow death for newspapers. Indeed, 166 newspapers in the US ceased printing from 2008-9, and hundreds of UK journalists lost their jobs as their papers got shockingly thinner. So are newspapers really going the way of the telegram?
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What is the real future for newspapers?
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Murdoch: News industry must charge for content. But who will pay?
Thursday, April 8th, 2010The 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?
