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Alan Rusbridger: 'By having a paywall, you are cutting your journalism off from the world'

Alan Rusbridger From The Guardian By Matt Wells

Published 26 January 2010

Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, who today gave the annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture, talks to Matt Wells about the future of digital journalism. The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch's campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a "sleepwalk into oblivion". Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would…