Access charges at the Times
Times editor James Harding has told the Society of Editors conference that readers will be paying for web access to the paper by next spring.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44649&c=1
He said the battle against free content is “the fight of our lives”, saying “we have to make sure that we put independent reporting, investigating the powerful, on an economically sustainable footing.”
Paper view
It won’t be cheap either, this independent reporting. Harding says that readers will pay about the same to view the Times web product as they would to buy a copy of the dead-tree version – 90p a day.
Second online
There are already news outlets that charge for content such as the Wall Street Journal and the FT. But Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will be the second general news organisation to charge readers for its web content.
The first being, of course, the BBC.
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Times editor James Harding has told the Society of Editors conference that readers will be paying for web access to the paper by next spring.
He said the battle against free content is “the fight of our lives”, saying “we have to make sure that we put independent reporting, investigating the powerful, on an economically sustainable footing.”
Paper view
It won’t be cheap either, this independent reporting. Harding says readers will pay about the same to view timesonline.co.uk as they would to buy a copy of the dead-tree version – 90p a day.
Second online
There are already news outlets that charge for content such as the Wall Street Journal and the FT. But Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will be the second general news organisation to charge readers for its web content.
The first being, of course, the BBC.
From Press Gazette via Twitter
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/murdoch_google_analysis/