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Article: Wall Street Journal to charge for mobile access: Murdoch.
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- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2009
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Byline: AFP
WASHINGTON: Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Wall Street Journal, announced plans Tuesday to begin charging for access to the newspaper on mobile devices such as the Blackberry or iPhone.
Murdoch, speaking to financial analysts at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference in New York, also predicted that print newspapers would be extinct within 20 to 30 years, replaced by portable electronic readers.
"Starting in a month or two, people who are getting The Wall Street Journal on their Blackberry are going to be paying two dollars a week," Murdoch said. "Same with the iPhone."
Mobile access to the Journal would cost a ...