Industry Moves: Tiscali TV; Telegraph Media Group, News International
– Tiscali: The head of Tiscali’s IPTV service Jonathan Sykes has left the company, five months after it was was bought by TalkTalk. From Me… Read more »
Sky Rides Another VOD Box; FetchTV First Of Many, Xbox On Oct 27
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Sky’s live and catch-up TV service over Xbox Live will go live in two weeks’ time – and will be the first of many..
The satcaster’s VOD dir… Read more »
News International Forms Digital R&D Division
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As it moves to monetise its web content as part of News Corp.’s global paid content mission, News International is creating a new digital-mi… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Trinity Local Closures; Observer Strike Threat; londonpaper Execs Redeployed
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– Trinity closures: More local weeklies bite the dust: Trinity Mirror’s paid-for Whitchurch Herald, the free Wrexham Chronicle and Mid-Ches… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Johnston Cuts?; Sun Mobile; TV Spending Protests; Mirror’s 3am-Samsung
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– Johnston Press: The torrid period of cuts at the UK’s big regional publishers isn’t over at all: Johnston staff fear that a new editorial… Read more »
Google’s Schmidt To Murdoch: ‘Mass Market Paywalls Won’t Work’
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Online news is too freely available for Rupert Murdoch’s global paywall plan to work, according to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt. Spe… Read more »
Industry Moves: News Int., Blyk, INQ Mobile, FT.com
– News International: A few months after stepping aside as News International’s digital development director, Mike Anderson is leaving to b… Read more »
Video: James Murdoch Defends His Edinburgh Speech, And Doesn't Let Up
News Corp.’s Europe and Asia CEO lit the blue touch paper Friday evening when he savaged the BBC in a predictably pro-market Edinburgh Inter… Read more »
There's Still Room For Freesheets, Just Not Too Many
The guest contributor is professor of cross-media content in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Hogeschool, Utrecht. Dr Bakke… Read more »
Londonpaper Closure: Murdoch Has Lost Faith In Free
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Thelondonpaper’s launch team, led by former Campaign editor Stefano Hatfield, flew to New York in 2006 to convince Rupert Murdoch and his ex… Read more »
Sun Online Gives Away Recruitment Ads To Jobless
Online ad sales staff must think they can’t give away recruitment ads at the moment — so no real surprises that Sun Online is giving away a… Read more »
Print Round-Up: Newsquest Relaunch, Economist Subs, TES Layoffs, NI's Science Mag
– Newsquest re-launch: The Gannett-owned regional publisher has given a facelift to 150 of its newspaper websites, including Telegraphandar… Read more »
Why Murdoch's Pay Wall Dream May Be All About Print
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The free ride is over online: Rupert says so. But what is the real motivation behind the old tycoon’s latest paid content battlecry?
There’… Read more »
The Pay Wall Debate In Quotes: No Consensus
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If monetising news websites is a war, it looks like the big publishers are about to send in the ground troops. Rupert Murdoch has again comm… Read more »
Zoopla Completes PropertyFinder Group Buy-Out
Property listings site Zoopla.co.uk has bought out PropertyFinder Group from its joint owners News International and the Australian REA Grou… Read more »
FT.com Considering iTunes-Style Micro-Payments Model
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FT.com executives are considering introducing a pay-as-you-read model loosely based on Apple’s iTunes to increase its digital revenues furth… Read more »
Confirmed: Sunday Times Launching Standalone Website
It’s not the best of times for Sunday newspapers — which makes The Sunday Times’ online ambitions even more intriguing: News International… Read more »
Sky Confirms True Pull VOD Service Launching In 2010
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has finally signaled its intention to launch a proper VOD TV service. While Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) VOD views skyrocket… Read more »
News Int.: BBC Video Share Will Make News Sites Samey
Four online papers may have started embedding BBC News video, but Times Online and Sun Online parent News International rejected the offer.… Read more »
Industry Moves: Trinity Cttee & Re-Org, Claverley CEO, News Int. Marketing
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– Trinity Mirror: Former Five and Flextech CEO Jane Lighting is stepping up to chair the news publisher’s remuneration committee, which she… Read more »
Murdoch Says News Corp. Kindle-Like Device ‘Isn’t Likely’: ‘We’ll Be Absolutely Neutral’
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Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from Ne… Read more »
Report: News International Accused Of Illegal Mobile Hacking
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Many at News International must have hoped this story hadn’t come back to haunt them… According to a report from investigative journalist… Read more »
Print Round-Up: SunTalk In Spain; More Trinity Cuts; Telegraph’s Free Ad Paper; Danish Handout
– SunTalk: The audio extension of News International’s leading red-top The Sun, is looking to extend its reach to British tourists and expa… Read more »
The Top Three Challenges For New News Int. CEO Rebekah Wade
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The UK’s biggest national newspaper publisher has a new boss: longstanding editor of The Sun, Rebekah Wade, has been promoted to CEO of News… Read more »
MySpace Might Close Offices In Europe And San Francisco
By Bobbie Johnson: MySpace is considering closing down a number of offices around the world as it attempts to cut costs and recover from a s… Read more »
