Rupert Murdoch: Websites and Search Engines Need to Pay for News

by Scott Wu | October 9, 2009 at 02:32 pm
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Rupert Murdoch said it is time for search engines and websites to start paying for news. Murdoch, owner of media giant News Corporation, had announced in August his plan to charge readers by the end of the year.

Murdoch said "the aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content" in the World Media Summit in Beijing. By aggregators and plagiarists, he meant the websites people actually visit for news, like Google and Yahoo.

Tom Curley from Associated Press said news provides were "exploited", and content creators had been "too slow to react to the free exploitation of news by third parties without input or permission."

"Crowd-sourcing web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook, have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing websites of traditional news publishers," he added.

Murdoch's News Corporation suffered a net loss of $3.4 billion this year. Associated Press is only expecting $700 million in revenue this year down from $748 million.

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Babel-Fish

Well we are looking at a lot of new media outlets to avoid.... 

Newspapers
  • Australia published by News Limited.
    • The Australian (Nationwide)
    • Community Media Group (16 QLD & NSW suburban/regional titles)
    • Cumberland-Courier Newspapers (26 suburban/commuter titles)
    • The Courier-Mail (Queensland)
    • The Sunday Mail (Queensland)
    • The Cairns Post (Cairns, Queensland)
    • The Gold Coast Bulletin (Gold Coast, Queensland)
    • The Townsville Bulletin (Townsville, Queensland)
    • The Daily Telegraph (New South Wales)
    • The Sunday Telgraph (New South Wales)
    • Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria)
    • The Weekly Times (Victoria)
    • Leader Newspapers (33 suburban Melbourne, VIC titles)
    • MX (Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane CBD)
    • The Geelong Advertiser (Geelong, Victoria)
    • The Advertiser (South Australia)
    • The Sunday Mail (South Australia)
    • Messenger Newspapers (11 suburban Adelaide, SA titles)
    • The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
    • The Mercury (Tasmania)
    • Quest Newspapers (19 suburban Brisbane, QLD titles)
    • The Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania)
    • Northern Territory News (Northern Territory)
    • The Sunday Territorian (Northern Territory)
    • The Tablelands Advertiser (Atherton Tablelands and the Far North, Queensland)
  • Fiji
    • Fiji Times (National)
    • Nai Lalakai
    • Shanti Dut
  • Papua New Guinea
    • Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (National)(62.5%)
  • UK and Ireland newspapers, published by subsidiaries of News International Ltd.
    • News Group Newspapers Ltd.
      • the tabloid The Sun (published in Ireland as The Irish Sun)
      • the tabloid News of the World
    • Times Newspapers Ltd.
      • the broadsheet The Sunday Times
      • the 'ex-broadsheet' (Now in compact form) The Times
      • The Times Literary Supplement
    • NI Free Newspapers Ltd.
      • the free newspaper thelondonpaper
  • US newspapers and magazines
    • The New York Post
    • Dow Jones & Company
      • Consumer Media Group
        • The Wall Street Journal - the leading US financial newspaper.
        • Wall Street Journal Europe
        • Wall Street Journal Asia
        • Barron's - weekly financial markets magazine.
        • Marketwatch - Financial news and information website.
        • Far Eastern Economic Review
      • Enterprise Media Group
        • Dow Jones Newswires - global, real-time news and information provider.
        • Factiva - provides business news and information together with content delivery tools and services.
        • Dow Jones Indexes - stock market indexes and indicators, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
        • Dow Jones Financial Information Services - produces databases, electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, and other information services on specialised markets and industry sectors.
        • Betten Financial News - leading Dutch language financial and economic news service.
      • Local Media Group
        • Ottoway Community Newspapers - 8 daily and 15 weekly regional newspapers.
      • STOXX (33%)- joint venture with Deutsche Boerse and SWG Group for the development and distribution of Dow Jones STOXX indices.
      • Vedomosti (33%) - Russia's leading financial newspaper (joint venture with Financial Times and Independent Media).
      • SmartMoney (50%)
    • The Timesledger Newspapers of Queens, New York:
      • Bayside Times, Whitestone Times, Flushing Times, Fresh Meadows Times, Little Neck Ledger, Jackson Heights Times, Richmond Hill Times, Jamaica Times, Laurelton Times, Queens Village Times, Astoria Times, Forest Hills Ledger, Ridgewood Ledger, Howard Beach Times
    • The Courier-Life Newspapers in Brooklyn
    • The Brooklyn Paper
    • Caribbean Life
    • The Times-Herald Record (Middletown, New York)

[edit] Magazines

  • News America Marketing (Smartsource) (weekly Sunday newspaper coupon insert/website)
  • Australian
    • Alpha Magazine
    • Australian Country Style
    • Australian Golf Digest
    • Australian Good Taste
    • Big League
    • BCME
    • Delicious
    • Donna Hay
    • Fast Fours
    • GQ (Australia)
    • Gardening Australia
    • InsideOut (Aust)
    • Lifestyle Pools
    • Live to Ride
    • Notebook
    • Overlander 4WD
    • Modern Boating
    • Modern Fishing
    • Parents
    • Pure Health
    • Super Food Ideas
    • Truck Australia
    • Truckin' Life
    • twowheels
    • twowheels scooter
    • Vogue (Australia)
    • Vogue Entertaining & Travel
    • Vogue Living
  • InsideOut (UK Based Magazine)
 

I wonder how much problems this will cause to news gathers on news communities?

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The_Cynic

Murdoch is going up against, Google, Bing (Microsoft), Reuters, Yahoo etc - it will be an interesting fight.

Though, my personal opinion is that the Murdoch empire should be nationalised in each country and sold off to the lowest bidder - for that is what he has done with 'News'. Yes, that includes all his satellite business.

Murdoch has ruined news, news gathering and TV. He also owns Fox.


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