The Financial Times is praised as a pioneer for introducing paywalls long before Rupert Murdoch, in a New York Times article headlined The Paper That Doesn't Want to Be Free.
The article says: "The growth of paid online services under the Financial Times banner shows that the paper was right to maintain pay walls at a time when other media companies were yielding to the Silicon Valley mantra that “information wants to be free,” said Tim Luckhurst, a journalism professor at the University of Kent in Britain and a former editor of The Scotsman.
“It has proved, in one niche at least, that editorial journalistic endeavor does create value,” he said."
“It has proved, in one niche at least, that editorial journalistic endeavor does create value,” he said."
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