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  • Media heavyweights spar over charging for news online

    03/12/2010 12:54:56 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 12 replies · 307+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 3/12/10 | Chris Lefkow
    NEW YORK (AFP) – With The New York Times and Rupert Murdoch poised to start charging for newspapers online, media heavyweights sparred on Thursday over whether readers will pay for news on the Web. The Times plans to require payment for full access to NYTimes.com in early 2011 and Murdoch, who already charges for The Wall Street Journal online, has pledged to begin charging Web readers of his other News Corp. newspapers. Keynote speakers and panelists at the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit here differed sharply on whether Internet users would be ready to shell out money for what they have...