By Channel 4 News
Every newspaper in the country will be watching Johnston Press after it decided to start charging for online news, Professor Tim Luckhurst tells Samira Ahmed.
Johnston Press is charging its readers £5 for three months' access to three of its publications, while another three titles will direct readers back to pay for the full article after a summary of each story.
Professor Tim Luckhurst, a former editor of the Scotsman and now a journalism lecturer, joined Samira Ahmed.
Mr Luckhurst said: "Every other newspaper company in Britain will be watching what Johnston Press are doing carefully because enabling newspapers to make money from online journalism is crucial to the future of journalism.
"As to whether or not it will succeed, well, what we have to understand is that this is a complete change of paradigm.
"What Johnston Press have realised is that it doesn't matter if a million people read your newspaper and pay nothing - you'd actually be better off if a thousand people read it and paid something."
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