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<em>Guardian</em> editor says paywalls a bad idea

Alan Rusbridger engaged in some tough talk on paywalls Monday, taking direct aim at News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch. From the Jan. 25 Guardian: The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch's campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a “sleepwalk into oblivion”. Delivering [...]

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Tue, January 26 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

The Star missed some lines of inquiry with Ariana Huffington

The Toronto Star has an interview with Ariana Huffington, who will be in Toronto today, but doesn’t bring up the subject of the Huffington Post’s legions of unpaid contributors or its propensity for extreme downmarket content.

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