WikiLeaks Suspends Publishing To Fight Financial Blockade
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Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
» Steve Jobs To Biographer: ‘I’m G… Read more »
Murdoch Faces Fire At Shareholders Meeting With Contrition And Amusement
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Rupert Murdoch received the grilling he had expected at News Corp.’s shareholders meeting and was more than prepared in remarks that offered… Read more »
News Corp.’s Australian Adds ‘Freemium’ Paywall
The Australian, which is owned by News Limited and is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), is adding a paywall to its website, m… Read more »
NYTCo’s Robinson: Paywall Hasn’t Dented Pageviews — Much
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The weak economy and the About Group’s declines have eaten away at revenue gains that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) won with last year’… Read more »
NYTCo Swings To Profit, Beats Estimates; Hits 324,000 Digital Subs
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In various investor settings over the past few months, New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) executives had made sure to mention that advertisi… Read more »
Why Rupert Murdoch Should Announce A New Direction For News Corp
Shareholders of News Corporation who are tempted to attend the company’s annual meeting later this week in Los Angeles might well be asking… Read more »
Apple’s Newsstand Is Already Booming For Some Magazine Publishers
Early indications are that Apple’s new iOS features for publishers have had an immediate beneficial impact. Read more »
With Week In Review Revamp Complete, NYT Unveils New Online Opinion Pages
Over the next few weeks, the NYTimes.com will be rolling out its new online Opinion Pages, which follows last summer’s transformation of the… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-18-11
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» Yahoo’s Levinsohn On Executive Chaos: ‘You Sort Of Get Used To It’ (paidContent)
» So Much For ‘Working It Out’: Mi… Read more »
Gannett’s Digital Revenues Gain, As Profits, Circ Shrink
Gannett’s profits slipped a bit due to the economic weakness, a sign of tougher times for newspaper publishers in general as the Q3 earnings… Read more »
Three UK Papers Are Still Hooked On The Bulk Sales Drug
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I’ve just returned from the the world editors’ forum in Vienna where delegates were intensely interested in the News International phone hac… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-14-11
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» Disney (NYSE: DIS), Fox (NSDQ: NWS) Commit To Hulu; Halt Sale Talks (paidContent)
» Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Closes $… Read more »
NYT To Cut 20 Newsroom Jobs; Plan Calls For Buyouts, Not Layoffs
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Following recent warnings of Q3 revenue declines due to the weak economy, The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is looking to cut 20 newsroom j… Read more »
Publishers Mull iOS 5′s Promise And Problems
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Magazine and newspaper publishers are looking forward to benefitting from new iOS features designed to help them – just as soon as they over… Read more »
Apple’s Newsstand Debuts, Grouping iOS Publications In One Folder
Conde Nast, Bonnier, Future, Nomad Editions and Associated Newspapers were amongst the publishers whose titles were on board when Apple (NSD… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-12-11
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» RIM’s Service Outage Enters Day Three And Company Admits It’s In The Dark (paidContent)
» How Gizmodo escaped indic… Read more »
Corrected: ‘DMR’ Alum Shreds Gannett Over Dubow’s $37 Million Parting Gift
It may not be sporting to compare other CEOs to Steve Jobs on a lot of levels but corporate pay and performance is fair game. With that as a… Read more »
Paywalls Spread To College Newspapers
Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons–and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing… Read more »
Gannett Shuttering MomsLikeMe Network, Deleting Everything
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Gannett’s MomsLikeMe hyperlocal parenting network will cease operating on Friday and its 100-plus town-specific sites will go dark and the c… Read more »
Baltimore Sun Adds Metered Paywall
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The Baltimore Sun is the latest newspaper to add a metered paywall, for both print and non-print subscribers. A digital subscription will co… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-10-11
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» Hulu Sale Is Debated (WSJ)
» The Show Must Go On: What To Expect At CTIA Enterprise Next Week (paidContent)
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Bonjour, Amazon. Kindle Store Debuts In France With Its First French Kindle
Yesterday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its first eBookstore outside of the U.S. in the UK, but it will have to step up the pace by quite a b… Read more »
Gannett’s Craig Dubow Resigns, Hands CEO Duties To Martore
Less than a month after taking his second medical leave in two years, Craig Dubow has resigned as Gannett’s CEO and chairman, the company sa… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died (paidContent)
» Three Years Later, Microsoft (NSDQ:… Read more »
News International Now Faces More Than 60 Phone Hacking Claims
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The father of Josie Russell, the girl who survived a hammer attack in which her mother and sister were killed, is among a raft of new claima… Read more »
‘Be Your Own Boss’: Northcliffe Turns LocalPeople Sites In To ‘Franchises’
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UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media was only paying its LocalPeople community publishers £4,800. ($7418.03) Now it wants thos… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-04-11
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» Price-Fixing Case Against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Major Book Publishers Mushrooms (paidContent)
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The Morning Lowdown 09-30-11
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» Facebook Pushes Back Against ‘Super-Cookie’ Charges (paidContent)
» Is Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Really Shaking In Its Sho… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-27-11
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» Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet A ‘Stopgap’ Design, Publishers Line Up (paidContent)
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Gains Dream… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-26-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks (NYT)
» Mediabank Merges With Donovan; Combined Company… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
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NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming
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Part of the bet that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) made when it began building the metered paywall for the NYTimes.com was that the aud… Read more »
Comparing The New Aggregators: Flipboard, Pulse, Zite, Float And More
From Flipboard and Aol Editions, to Ongo and News.me, the rise of tablets and apps is changing how we gather and consume content. A couple… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
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» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
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E.W. Scripps Looks To Streamline Digital Operations With Reorg
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With digital revenues across E.W. Scripps’ newspaper and television divisions sometimes offering an incomplete picture, the company has deci… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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» What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like? (paidContent)
» Update: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buys Groupon Clone And Lau… Read more »
Associated Press Teams With 40 Newspapers On Mobile Coupons
With newspapers having suffered through 20 straight quarters of decline — and no end in sight — a collaborative effort on the part of the… Read more »
Gannett’s Dubow Taking Medical Leave Again
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Chairman and CEO Craig Dubow is once again taking medical leave, the company said in a short, late afternoon press relea… Read more »
The Daily Launches On UK App Store To Mixed Response
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News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has quietly launched its iPad newspaper The Daily in the UK, seven months after the app made its debut in the U… Read more »
