Sun and Telegraph to put up paywalls for online content

Free online journalism is 'untenable' say newspapers as they plan to charge web readers

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THE SUN and the Daily Telegraph have both decided to charge people to read their journalism online, claiming that publishing free content is "untenable".

The online version of The Sun, which is read by about 30 million people each month, will move behind a paywall in the second half of the year, The Guardian reports.

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