Via Jemima Kiss at the Guardian, Rupert Murdoch has backtracked on plans to open up the Wall Street Journal’s paid-for content. In fact, subscribers can expect to pay more for it:
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday, Murdoch said his plans for the newly-acquired publication still involved expanding the audience for general news.
But the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which concluded its takeover of Wall Street Journal owner Dow Jones last month, indicated that WSJ.com users would probably have to pay more for content that remained behind the subscription wall.
“We’re sort of dividing it up. Those things you can get more or less as a commodity on different sites about finance, that will certainly be free at the Wall Street Journal,” he added.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/25/digitalmedia.rupertmurdoch?gusrc=rss&feed=media
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