WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch’s hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its pub… Read more »
Les Hinton: The News International Years As Rupert’s ‘Consigliere’
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making goo… Read more »
Hinton Leaves Dow Jones And News Corp.: The Memos
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News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and pu… Read more »
Updated: DJ’s Les Hinton Latest To Leave News Corp. In Hacking Scandal
The latest News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). casualty in the spreading hacking scandal: Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones since it was acquired by News Corp… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch Tells WSJ Sales Reports ‘Pure Rubbish’; Defends James
Less than a week before he testifies before a committee of Parliament, Rupert Murdoch tested his speaking skills on the growing scandal affe… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
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» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
Denials, Recriminations Among News International Execs Over Who Saw Emails
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A bitter internal wrangle has broken out at News International over who saw emails retrieved by the company four years ago which suggest tha… Read more »
News Corp. Suit, Watchdog Complaint Portend U.S. Headaches For Murdoch
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The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). phone-hacking and police payoffs scandal, which has riveted Britain for more than a week, has finally reached Ame… Read more »
BSkyB Shares Drop As Hunt Offers Regulators A Do-Over On News Corp. Deal
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Another major setback for News Corp in the UK today: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, is sending back the media giant’s bid for broadcast… Read more »
Mid-Year Media Stock Review: Content Trumped Tech in First Half of 2011
Turns out content was king during the first half of 2011, as CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast/NBCU (NSDQ: CMCSA), and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) posted s… Read more »
New York Post Blocks iPad Access Via Safari To Sell Subscriptions
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It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions thro… Read more »
Bloomberg’s Tyrangiel: Website Revamp Represents Best Bid For Influence
The remaking of Bloomberg.com into a more appealing news site for a general business professional and major brand advertisers is being fully… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Reporter Takes Heat Over Tone Of Privacy Series
In many ways, the series of articles about online privacy that the Wall Street Journal began publishing last year has set the tone for the p… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-06-11
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» As If The Switch From AOL (NYSE: AOL) News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough (paidContent)
» The most interesting t… Read more »
WSJ Creates Web-Based Subscription Service For CFOs
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The Wall Street Journal is drilling down on niche audiences and is now selling subscriptions to a web-based news service aimed at chief fina… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Major Newspaper E-Editions Circ Rose 20 Percent
It looks like the combination of the iPad, Kindle, iPhone and Android is quickly having a positive impact on newspaper e-editions, as the Au… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-02-11
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» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-04-11
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» When SB Nation head Jim Bankoff was at AOL (NYSE: AOL) in 2005, he helped manage the acquisition of Endgaget — now he’s brough… Read more »
Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million
RR Donnelley execs aren’t talking — neither are Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz, at least about deal details — but paidContent has learned… Read more »
Sulzberger: App Sales Prove News Consumers Are Willing To Pay
The rise of tablets and apps has helped pave the way for the New York Times and potentially many other newspapers to charge for content, sai… Read more »
WSJ Launching Single-Issue Downloads For iPad
Looking to get more subscribers for its iPad app, The Wall Street Journal will start selling single-issue digital versions of its morning pa… Read more »
NYTimes.com Pay Scheme Has A Great Big Hole
Bill Grueskin is following The New York Times digital pay plans as the former managing editor of the subscription-based Wall Street Journal… Read more »
Report: Iger, Carey May Exit Hulu Board
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Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). COO Chase Carey may step down from the board of directors at Hulu, accor… Read more »
Google, Facebook Kick Twitter’s $10 Billion Tires
So what if Twitter only generated revenues of $45 million last year? That hasn’t discouraged the likes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or Facebook fr… Read more »
Why Jason Kilar Will Leave Hulu
The portrait of Hulu that emerged from today’s Wall Street Journal is that of a hopelessly dysfunctional venture at odds with itself over it… Read more »
Dow Jones Preps New Foreign Exchange News Product
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With most investors and traders connected to some computer practically every moment of the day, the major financial news services have been… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.10.11
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» Personal finance mag SmartMoney has unveiled its first major redesign, nearly a year after Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) acquired the r… Read more »
What Comes After Newspapers: Forget Form, It’s About Content
Andrew Walkingshaw is CEO of London-based startup Timetric, which specializes in economic data services, but he is writing a series about th… Read more »
Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
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Wasn’t the iPad supposed to save print journalism? A Reynolds Journalism Institute survey of 1,600 iPad users this fall says that more than… Read more »
Reuters’ Bowen Defects To Dow Jones To Head Digital Business
Alisa Bowen, who has worked on overhauling Reuters’ consumer business, is heading to Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) to run the company’s digital busi… Read more »
Briefing.com Admits It Broke Copyright Laws, Pays Dow Jones
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Briefing.com has settled a lawsuit brought against it by Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) & Company, paying an undisclosed sum of money for publishing… Read more »
@ Monaco Media Forum: James Murdoch’s First Rule (With Video)
The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First r… Read more »
Confirmed: Fox Blocking Google TV
Fox has begun blocking the availability of its TV programming from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV, joining ABC (NYSE: DIS), CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC (NY… Read more »
Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring
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One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to… Read more »
Newspaper Fas-Fax: Newspaper Circ Decline Slows, E-Editions Up 47 Percent
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Increased interest in e-editions wasn’t enough to keep U.S. newspapers from another circ decline but it did help slow the bleeding. Circulat… Read more »
WSJ Doesn’t Buy Into Amazon’s ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ Plans
Earlier this month, I told an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) VP the aspect that bothered me most as a Kindle user was the inability to access my subscr… Read more »
Starbucks Digital Network: BYOS (Bring Your Own Screen)
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In early 2006, Howard Schultz talked about the power of having a massive collection of Wi-Fi hotspots, declaring “Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.08.10
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» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has long been known to plant stories when it suits its purpose. But TechCrunch finds the process particularl… Read more »
WSJ Says Digital Ad Sales Up 29 Percent
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A week after the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) put out a relatively solid forecast for digital ad sales during the quarter ending this week… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.20.10
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» Now that the WSJ’s New York metro section is settling into a groove, Rupert Murdoch’s next move involves building up and rebran… Read more »
