Business Spectator going paywall too?

It appears a deal between News and Business Spectator is imminent:

NEWS Limited, publisher of The Australian, is expected to announce as early as today the acquisition of online business publication Business Spectator and its subscriber investment newsletter Eureka Report.

The deal is believed to be valued at more than $22 million, and brings the respected business journalist Alan Kohler and his team, including Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz, into an expanded business editorial offering, particularly for The Australian’s premium business content.

That last line is most interesting. If BS is going to become a part of The Cupboard’s “premium business content” then it’s going to get locked is my guess.

An amazing couple of days in business media.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.