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News Corp. news sites to charge fees
News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch's probably not waking up too happy this morning. Last night his media company, News Corp., reported a 30 percent slide in profits from a year ago. News Corp. owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and MySpace, just to name a few. From New York, here's Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson.
JEREMY HOBSON: MySpace, facing steep competition from Facebook, was a drag on News Corp's earnings. But MacQuarie analyst Alex Pollack in Sydney says it's the advertising slump affecting all media companies that's hurting most.
ALEX POLLACK: This company's half advertising, half subscription driven. The subscription part of it, which is cable and network programming and Sky Italia and bSkyb, has done well. The ad market has collapsed over the last nine months.
As a result, Rupert Murdoch says he plans to start charging a subscription fee for all of his news Web sites. Pollack says Murdoch's decided he can't cost-cut his way to prosperity.
POLLACK: You have to charge, and people will charge, and people have an appetite to read news and they will pay for news as long as it's priced, you know like iTunes music at 99 cents a bite, and not like your electricity bill at $2,000 a year.
Murdoch says get ready -- the charges should be in place by the middle of next year.
In New York, I'm Jeremy Hobson for Marketplace.
About the author
Jeremy Hobson is host of Marketplace Morning Report, where he looks at business news from a global perspective to prepare listeners for the day ahead. Follow Jeremy on Twitter @jeremyhobson
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Hey I thought only politicians do stupid things like this. Wake up Murdy, the Internet is bigger than Faux and Murd-holdings. Sooner than you think you will have competition and that competition will be free and pull people away from your brain-washing media. Like the abacus, and horse-n-buggie, your newspapers are a thing of the past.
