FT.com to start charging

NEWS The Financial Times has announced it is to start charging for online content on its FT.com website. Among a raft of changes to the service, which will also include a redesign, FT.com will introduce £75 annual subscriptions for readers looking to access archived material and a number of its regular columns as well as news pages dedicated to specific industries. The rest of the site's daily content will still be freely available - though how much that will constitute once the paid-for content has been siphoned-off is unclear. The move follows a growing trend within the UK newspaper industry, started by The Times which began charging users to do its crossword last year.