News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch is now convinced that ‘it is possible to charge for content’ online given the success of paid-for business news on the Wall Street Journal, he said last night.
Any pay model would be tested on one of the group’s stronger titles, he added.
Murdoch also described Newsgroup’s interest in developing its own e-reading or digital paper device.
At the FIPP World Magazine Congress this week Guardian Media Group’s Carolyn McCall suggested Guardian.co.uk could also start charging for specialist areas of the site.
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