Editor: Guardian to remain free
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on January 20, 2010 at 1:04 PM
Editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger ruled out erecting paywalls around The Guardian's Web site, expressing optimism about the future of the newspaper, Journalism.co.uk reported.
Speaking as part of the Coventry Conversation series, run by the Coventry University journalism department, he said the newspaper had no plans to put up paywalls, as Rupert Murdoch has planned to do for News International titles. "It would be crazy if we were to all jump behind a pay wall and imagine that would solve things," Rusbridger said. He did agree, though, that it was good that journalism was "trying different things."
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Speaking as part of the Coventry Conversation series, run by the Coventry University journalism department, he said the newspaper had no plans to put up paywalls, as Rupert Murdoch has planned to do for News International titles. "It would be crazy if we were to all jump behind a pay wall and imagine that would solve things," Rusbridger said. He did agree, though, that it was good that journalism was "trying different things."
For more on this story, visit our sister site, editorsweblog.org.
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