Funny ad from The Sun – not sure about it’s interface or ability to leave comments but still, a nice try!

Seen any other ads where newspapers are fighting back?

 

Just a quick follow up on Death Cycle of Newspapers – News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch - Current days of free internet will soon be over, says media mogul (The Guardian) Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation‘s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ­”malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an “epochal” debate over whether to charge. “That it is possible to charge for content on the web Continue Reading…

 

Robert Andrews at Journalism.co.uk has a snippet on some jobs working with Citizen Murdoch. I’ll quote it in full as its only a wee thing: Rupert Murdoch’s News International is to embark on a big expansion of its internet communities commitment this summer. Recruitment advertisements have gone out for a number of positions “on several levels, in a new online community team as part of an exciting project”. The drive, which is in an early stage, will see the addition of an online community editor, who will create new forums on hot topics and will seed user-generated content from readers, Continue Reading…

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