Murdoch has friends in fight against Google, says M&G's Ncube

9 Dec 2009

Google is no friend of the newspaper industry. That's the view of newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube, who agrees with News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch that newspapers need to find ways of charging readers to access content on their websites.

Ncube, who recently attended the World Association of Newspapers conference in Hyderabad, India, says Murdoch is not fighting a lone crusade against Google and is not the only publisher that plans to erect pay walls around its websites and to block the search engine company from republishing copyrighted material.

Rather, Ncube, who is deputy chairman of Mail & Guardian owner M&G Media and publisher of Zimbabwe's soon-to-be-launched independent daily, NewsDay, says almost the entire newspaper industry worldwide is behind Murdoch's efforts to stave off the “threat” from Google and to get readers to pay for content online.

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