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AOP survey shows about 70% of digital publishers in the newspaper, magazine and TV industries will charge for content online, it also illustrates that more than half of media firms use Twitter to publish content

Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'

Rupert Murdoch states that serch engines such as Google News need to pay the content fee for news providers at the World Media Summit in Beijing

From 13 October, it is no longer free of charge to read articles which are more than 90 days old on Economist's website. Online subscription fee needs to be paid for those who want to access those articles.