• Bloomberg News, Friday, July 24, 2009 1:34 PM

News Corp. will eventually charge customers for access to its content, Jonathan Miller, the company's chief digital officer, said Thursday. Speaking at a Fortune magazine conference, Miller said, the Web "will become a have and have not world" in which some companies have material people are willing to buy and others don't. He added that journalism would increasingly become a "paid model" on the Web, in the same way that News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal charges for online subscriptions.

News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch hired Miller in April in an overhaul of MySpace and Fox Interactive Media's top management. Former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta replaced Chris DeWolfe as MySpace CEO. In November, MySpace named Courtney Holt, a former MTV and Intescope Records executive, as head of MySpace Music. In an interview, Holt tells Bloomberg: "We're actually bringing the ads deeper into the site in creative ways." Miller and Van Natta fired 30% of MySpace's staff in June, lowering the company's workforce to about 1,000 employees.

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