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?
