Media heavyweights spar over charging for news online

March 12, 2010

A view of the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan. 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.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)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.

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