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Murdoch: WSJ.com will be free

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said at a news conference in Australia that the Wall Street Journal web site will become free after the company closes on its purchase of Dow Jones & Co., the Journal’s parent.

A Reuters story stated, “The media mogul also said he was also planning to boost the numbers of subscribers to the Wall Street Journal’s Web site more than tenfold by making access free.

“‘We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having 1 million (subscribers) having at least 10-15 million in every corner of the earth,’ the 76-year-old told a shareholder meeting in the Australian city where the global media group was founded.

“Murdoch said News Corp’s film division, its expanding online businesses and its acquisition of the Wall Street Journal would drive future growth.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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