Jul 4, 2010

Online news reinvented

London - Newspapers worldwide are being forced to reinvent themselves for the internet age - and will be watching closely the success of two experiments launched in London, analyst say.

Suffering a long-term fall in sales and a collapse in advertising revenue as the world goes online for its news, the press has for years been scrambling to decide how to respond.

In Britain, Rupert Murdoch's Times and Sunday Times finally went ahead from Friday with their long-promised plan to start charging readers for online access to their journalism, the first non-specialist papers to do so here.

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