News Of The World’s Closure Brings Abrupt End To One Murdoch Paywall
When the News of the World disappears from print this Sunday, its digital assets will be going right out the door with it. Or will they? NOT… Read more »
News Corp. Seen Weathering Tabloid Scandal Despite Black Eye for News Int.
News Corp.’s dramatic decision to close News of the World, the leading UK tabloid engulfed in a growing phone-hacking and police payoffs sca… Read more »
News Corp’s Bid For BSkyB Up In The Air Again, May Blow Up
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The fire that has engulfed The News of the World newspaper over the phone hacking scandal has threatened to spread to the rest of News Inter… Read more »
James Murdoch: ‘Sullied’ Tabloid Will Close Sunday
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In the face of tremendous, growing outrage over ethical and legal breaches by the UK’s largest tabloid, New Corp. bowed to pressure with an… Read more »
Murdoch Responds To Hacking Claims From Sun Valley
Rupert Murdoch is standing by News International head Rebekah Brooks in his first public statement on the new phone hacking accusations caus… Read more »
Update: HuffPo UK ‘We’re The Only Independent Digital Destination For News’
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Today, Arianna Huffington’s online news phenomenon The Huffington Post is making its European debut, with the launch of Huffington Post UK,… Read more »
Update 2: Hacked Off Public May Derail News Corp Over Dowler Scandal
The newest voicemail hacking scandal that has engulfed the UK tabloid News of the World was described by one commentator today as a “slow mo… Read more »
The Daily’s Launch Exec Picton Joins Mail Online
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Former Sun Online editor Pete Picton, who we revealed in September was called up to help launch News Corp.’s The Daily in New York, has now… Read more »
News Corp’s Project Alesia Team Releasing An iPad Product After All
Some of the thinking behind News Corp.’s attempt at aggregating its rivals’ news publications on tablets devices will live on despite being… Read more »
News Corp. Appears To Favour Softer Paid Model For Britain’s Biggest Paper
Back in 2009, Rupert Murdoch declared: “We intend to charge for all our news websites.” Two years on, and it’s becoming clear that some will… Read more »
The Times Gains New Subscribers With Groupon Discount
Times Newspapers has added nearly two percent more digital subscribers in the last three days, after discounting its online rates by 70 perc… Read more »
Brooks Aims To Change News International’s Game With Big Review
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News International’s chief executive Rebekah Brooks has launched a three-year internal review of the company under the slogan “changing the… Read more »
James Murdoch Marked As News Corp. #3; Promoted To Deputy COO, Moving To NY
Following News Corp.’s win with the regulators over BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), James Murdoch is getting the corporate equivalent of a post-Super Bow… Read more »
0.82 Percent Of iPad-Owning UK Times Trialists Subscribed
Another stat has come across our bows, aside from Tuesday’s second release of digital numbers from Times Newspapers (analysis)…
The propo… Read more »
Reading Between The Lines On The Times’ ‘Paywall’ Numbers
Let’s dive in to News International’s second release of numbers pertaining to Times Newspapers’ digital fees… Read more »
UK Times Claims 79,000 Digital Subscribers
Frequently besmirched since it started charging online eight month ago, News International has, as it promised it would, issued a second set… Read more »
UK Times Plans Upgrade To Its ‘Berlin Wall’
The Times is planning some changes to its paid digital model that could lead to more nuanced additions to its current hard in-or-out system. Read more »
Advertisers Benefit From The Times’ Reader Fees, News International Claims
News International is claiming that advertisers have benefited from “significant lifts in user engagement and brand recall” due to charging… Read more »
‘Paywalls’: NPR Has A Look, Telegraph Reportedly To Switch
Remember the great Free Vs Paid debate of 2010? Here, NPR reporter David Folkenflik digs in to Times Newspapers’ strategy… Read more »
Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up
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The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” – many are confused exactly how th… Read more »
Why The Daily’s Detractors Are Missing The Point
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The cacophony from people not “getting” The Daily is deafening.
Many ridicule the new publication for not updating every minute of every da… Read more »
@ DLD: Video: James Murdoch: The Sun Will Have ‘Strong’ Paid Component
If anyone thought the fading online audience at The Times would dishearten News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). when it comes to charging online, think ag… Read more »
News International Accounts: Millions Lost In Property Website Sales
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News International swung from a £31.7 million annual profit to a £73.3 million annual loss in the year to June 2010, according to statemen… Read more »
The Times Goes To The Googleplex To Meet Its Nemesis
Given everything Times Newspapers, News International and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) have said about the supposedly corrosive, unbundling effect… Read more »
Video: News Corp’s Dominic Young Says Paywalls Are Good For Humans
News International strategy and development director Dominic Young speaking to Westminster Media Forum this month… 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 »
News Corp’s Christmas Day Strategy: Catch iPad Gift Recipients
With News Corp.’s belief in the tablet opportunity ongoing, its UK newspapers tried snagging what it expected would be an army of new iPad o… Read more »
News Of The World Pricier On iPad Than On Paper
Rupert Murdoch is clearly looking to tablets as a post-print, post-web model for salvation. But, if the new News Of The World iPad edition i… Read more »
Video: Sunday Times’ iPad Edition Coming With With £1.79 Single-Issue Cost
The Sunday Times’ iPad edition is due to debut this coming Sunday – price: free to print-and-digital annual Times subscribers, free to £2-a… Read more »
Video: Spotify’s UK Head On How Sceptics Misjudge Paid Content Businesses
UK country manager Jon Mitchell tells the AOP… “The crucial thing for businesses heading in to a world they’re not particularly familiar with, like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) heading to paywalls: you’ve got to be flexible. “There’s obviously lots of comment externally on these businesses, going […] Read more »
Research: 14 Percent Of Times Readers Have Subscribed
More than a tenth of The Times’ core readers who have internet access have now paid to subscribe to the paper’s website or its web-and-prin… Read more »
The iPad May Not Be The Great Saviour Of Newspapers
George Orwell once made a very important comparison between the rival merits of books and cigarettes, in an effort to prove that the cost of… Read more »
News Corp’s Australian Favours WSJ’s Paid Model Over The Times’ Approach
Web fees for News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) online newspapers is a direction rather than a template. Down under, The Australian seems unwilling to fo… Read more »
Guardian’s Rusbridger: Digital Threatens To Destroy Press Funding
The rise of many-to-many, a 15-point love-letter to Twitter and the possible destruction of the role and funding of the press. That was Guar… Read more »
The Times’ Paywall And Newsletter Economics
In early July, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) placed its two London-based “quality” dailies, the Times and Sunday Times, behi… Read more »
Times’ Digital Director Sandhu Is Leaving News Corp.
Times Newspapers’ digital director is leaving the company, after having relaunched the News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) titles as paid digital products… Read more »
News Corp. Measuring MySpace By Quarters But Digital Publishing Has Longer Leash
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Chase Carey used the same language to set two very different timescales for some of his key businesses during News Corp.’s Wednesday analyst… Read more »
