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Economist: Online newspapers in India: Papering over the cracks

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"The strength of India's print press is, however, in part down to the weakness of its online offerings. This is hardly surprising. For all the country's vaunted IT prowess, only 6.9% of Indians regularly surf the web. Apart from a smattering of web-exclusive news, newspaper websites tend to be a photocopy of print editions."

Nieman Journalism Lab: “The price you pay for asking people to pay the price”: Gerry Marzorati on class and the NYT paywall

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Gerry Marzorati of The New York Times: “We’re going to be building a kind of mini website for India ... [India] is an enormous newspaper-reading culture that is only now beginning to transition online, and we want to be there and we want to have a product that not only appeals to Indians, but also Indians in the diaspora who might want information about India from a product that they are now using here.”