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'Sunday Times' To Be Test Case For Murdoch's Paid Online Model?

It looks like Rupert Murdoch plans to use the UK's Sunday Times as a guinea pig for his drastic new strategy -- announced Thursday -- to charge fees for access to every piece of content he controls online. The newspaper's site will be launched as a standalone, Sundaytimes.co.uk, by the end of November. Whether News International, the subsidiary that controls Murdoch's stable of British papers, will introduce a subscription model or charge for each visit is still unclear.

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