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• 19 Jul 09
  

  Chere B
  • Rupert Murdoch said in May that he expected his News Corporation newspaper websites to start charging for access within a year. The News Corp chairman and chief executive said free newspaper websites were a "flawed" business model.
• 17 Jul 09
  

  Frank .

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  Chasjo Mitch
  • Barber said building online platforms that could charge readers on an article-by-article or subscription basis was one of the key challenges facing news organisations.

  • Rupert Murdoch said in May that he expected his News Corporation newspaper websites to start charging for access within a year. The News Corp chairman and chief executive said free newspaper websites were a "flawed" business model.

    Murdoch's rival, the New York Times, could begin charging for online news within the next three to four weeks.

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  • • Barber said last night that the Financial Times had pioneered the concept of a "frequency model", giving access to a limited number of articles on the web before asking users to subscribe.

      "We are seeing sustained and growing revenue as a result of our strategy of premium pricing for quality, niche global content – crucial at a time of weakening advertising," he added.

    • FT.com, has more than 1.3 million non-paying registered users worldwide, with another 110,000 paying subscribers.
• 16 Jul 09
  

  Kurt Lindblom

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  Davis Freeberg
  • "almost all" news organisations will be charging for online content within a year.
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  Phil Maxwell

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  Sarah-Jane Bolling
  • Barber is the latest leading executive to suggest the newspaper industry has to radically overhaul its existing business model.
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  Richard Kendall

  "payment platforms is one of key challenges facing news organisations"

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  • "But I confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organisations will be charging for content."

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      Richard Kendall on 2009-07-16

      There might not be any choice left for some news publishers?!
  • a "frequency model", giving access to a limited number of articles on the web before asking users to subscribe.
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  • • premium pricing for quality, niche global content

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  Richard Kendall on 2009-07-16
  There might not be any choice left for some news publishers?!

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