Image by Simon Scarfe via Flickr The editor of the Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, is the latest senior figure to predict that media organisations are going be charging for online news. In a speech at a Media Standards Trust event in London, Barber said: How these online payment models work and how much revenue they can generate is still up in the air. But I confidently predict that within

From the Financial Times, the New York newsagent that doesn’t sell newspapers. It is a witty story, with the reporter in a “state of shock” and “nauseous” at the lack of newspapers. But the reason, from the newsagent’s point of view, was purely economic: The people who distribute newspapers in New York are always late, said our man. “And they rip me off.” He was making 2c on a Post