Murdoch ‘jumping the gun’ on free WSJ.com
Cory Bergman November 14th, 2007
Earlier this week, Rupert Murdoch told reporters that he “expected” WSJ.com to switch to free access in the near future. “It is jumping the gun,” says Wall Street Journal SVP Michael Rooney. “We haven’t even closed the deal yet… Mr. Murdoch would like to have the largest, most robust site in business. Free is a way to look at that. But there is a lot of detail behind that. You have to work that out. You don’t just flip the switch.” That’s for sure.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Rocker | November 15th, 2007 at 8:00 am
“People” are jumping the gun?
1/Anyone have some recruiter contacts they can help Rooney out with? I think he’s going to need them.
2/”Switching to free is very complicated” - not really.
2. Harry | November 15th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
flip the switch now..then the site crashes because the traffic increases ALOT. and then what about the people that paid for subs? can we say refund check!
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