Well, the Economist asks that question (among others) in a detailed story on News Corp and Rupert Murdoch. A lot of these aspects we have covered over the last year here, and some we haven’t written as much about: the newspaper businesses of News Corp. And “Despite his speech [last year about newspaper], only a tiny fraction of News Corp’s energy appears to be going into securing its newspapers’ future online,” said Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at the Guardian, in the story.
In Britain the Murdoch-owned Sun, Times and News of the World together attracted 6.7 million unique visitors in November 2005, only the same as the Guardian alone, and far fewer than the 21.4 million who visited the news site of the BBC, a publicly funded broadcaster.
In a related story, Murdoch gives a rare live interview to Five Live radio in UK, where he talks a bit about (the MP3 download of his interview is here…25 mins). On newspapers 15 years down the line, he said: “I’m sure it will still be available on paper, it won’t happen that fast but you’ll be able to, for instance, have a tablet beside your bed, you subscribe to the paper and it’ll come there wirelessly, and you’ve got to pick it up and read every page of the paper on an electronic or battery-driven tablet.” A more detailed story about hsi interview is here
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