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Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off?
As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of
The Times
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, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching
Google
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for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive - only follow-up stories by rival news organisations suc...
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As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive - only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.
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