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Murdoch: Google Will Stop Getting Free News

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he expects online content aggregators such as Google Inc. will soon stop posting content produced by others without paying for it. While Google News now includes links to full stories published by The Wall Street Journal, Murdoch would prefer just a headline and a sentence or two from the article, and subscription form for the newspaper. "We're going to stop Google and others from taking our content" and using it for free, Murdoch said at the National Press Club.

Murdoch defended the idea of charging for online content, which WSJ does, and the policy will extend to his other papers, including the Times of London. He suggested that readers won't balk since "no one's going to ask for a lot of money." "I think most newspapers in this country are going to be putting up a pay wall," for online content, he added.

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