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News Corp Will Charge For Newspaper Websites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the probably-not-for-fox-news dept.

suraj.sun writes "Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a 'malfunctioning' business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an 'epochal' debate over whether to charge. 'That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience,' he said."

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  1. Another smart move from the movers and shakers.... by wild_quinine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rupert Murdoch says having free newspaper websites is a 'flawed' business model. Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a "malfunctioning" business model.

    On the other hand, everytbody knows that charging for something that everyone else provides for free is a winning strategy.

  2. Re:Another smart move from the movers and shakers. by mariox19 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What does Murdoch know about making money, anyway?

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  3. Re:Well It's a Long Painful Death For ... by vertinox · · Score: 2, Funny

    * The Sun
            * News of the World
            * The Times
            * Sunday Times
            * The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
            * The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
            * The Australian (national)
            * The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide)
            * The Sunday Times (Perth)
            * Herald Sun (Melbourne)
            * Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne)
            * mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)
            * The Courier-Mail (Brisbane)
            * Geelong Advertiser
            * Gold Coast Bulletin
            * The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart)
            * Northern Territory News (Darwin)
            * The Sunday Territorian (Darwin)
            * Sunday Star-Times
            * Papua New Guinea Post-Courier
            * The Fiji Times
            * New York Post
            * The Wall Street Journal
            * Times Herald Record

    And nothing of value was lost.

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  4. Re:Well It's a Long Painful Death For ... by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If we get really lucky, he'll start charging for foxnews.com too.

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  5. Re:The P0rn option... by stewbacca · · Score: 2, Funny

    You had me at "porn" and "doable".

  6. Re:the sad thing is by Kythe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed.

    Now if only Fox News would become a "pay-by-the-minute" service...

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  7. Re:the sad thing is by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because it has seen your last few posts and is trying to save you the embarrassment :)

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  8. Re:the sad thing is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The fact of the matter is that (porn excepted) people don't pay for online content. Period. If that means we only get "amateur" news reporting, then that's what it will mean.

    If this amateur "news" is half as good as some of the amateur porn I've seen, then great!