Websites and iPads - which way now for newspapers?
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By James Cridland
An introduction to newspapers in the UK
Rupert Murdoch, the owner of (among others) The Sun and The Times, was clear in April 2010 on his thoughts about the future. ‘We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognise it,’ he told an event in the US.
In June 2010, The Times and The Sunday Times became paid-for websites, behind a so-called ‘paywall’. Murdoch’s ‘Wall Street Journal’ had already moved to a pay model some years earlier, in a move that earns the newspaper around $65 million a year; Murdoch’s wish is to emulate this with all his titles around the world.
It’s not going to be easy. While the Wall Street Journal contains specialist business news and analysis which is exclusive to the newspaper, The Times is a rather more general title, containing little which is specifically exclusive. In addition, the UK landscape is significantly altered by the presence of the BBC w...
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