Hugo Dixon: ‘Almost everything we do, the Financial Times tries to copy’

Chris Tryhorn - The Guardian, Monday 25 January 2010

How can you make the internet pay? It’s the number one question being asked by all media groups, with Rupert Murdoch poised to put his papers behind a paywall and the New York Times announcing it will do the same in 2011.

Fresh from the sale of his Breakingviews financial commentary site toThomson Reuters, Hugo Dixon is well placed to offer some advice. Out of the £12m-plus Reuters is paying for the 10-year-old business, Dixon gets more than £3m for his shares and options, with a further retention bonus to keep the former Financial Times journalist there for another three years…more