News Corp. has said it is finally shutting down The Daily, the iPad-only newspaper it launched in 2011. Although the media giant should be given some credit for experimenting with a new medium, there were obvious signs that The Daily was doomed from the start. Read more at GigaOM »
News Corp concedes its pioneering tablet-only news title is not popular enough to continue as anything other than a learning exercise, marking the failure of one aspect of Rupert Murdoch’s tablet odyssey. Read more »
The Huffington Post has dropped the price of its iPad magazine to zero, and News Corp.’s The Daily has chopped almost a third of its staff — more evidence that the dream many publishers had about the iPad being their savior is still far from reality. Read more at GigaOM »
Rupert Murdoch’s struggling iPad newspaper The Daily is laying off 50 of 170 employees and also implementing other cost-saving measures, including decreasing opinion and sports coverage. The changes will help the publication “be more nimble editorially,” editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo said. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
News Corp. billionaire Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that the company is considering splitting itself in two, with the newspaper assets spun off as a separate entity. What would — or could — the digital future look like for that standalone newspaper unit? Here are a few ideas. Read more at GigaOM »
“Virtually every publication in the world right now would desperately like to be 100 percent digital,” said Flipboard editorial director and Time Inc. vet Josh Quittner said at Internet Week this week, as publishers debated how to monetize digital magazines. Read more »
The Daily is finally available in Android, sort of. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) tablet tabloid, which has been iPad only since birth, is not… Read more »
News Corp has stopped stonewalling about The Daily’s circulation following reports from Bloomberg that the tablet tabloid had 120,000 weekly… Read more »
The folks at News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) have been cagey about nearly every number to do with The Daily from the beginning — except for the amou… Read more »
Another News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). tabloid is making news today and this time it has nothing to do with Parliament or police. The Daily is out w… Read more »
After more literally years of build up, Swedish freemium music service Spotify finally opened its virtual doors in the U.S. today with three… Read more »
“In the quarter, we have lost about $10 million on The Daily,” News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) president Chase Carey told analysts on the group’s Q3 e… Read more »
AdAge’s Nat Ives began his chat with The Daily’s Greg Clayman by pressing him on recent questions about subscriber numbers. Clayman wouldn’t… Read more »
The folks at The Daily aren’t ready to talk real numbers but they are upset enough about one set making the rounds now to try to set the rec… Read more »
In spite of some glitches that resulted in a lengthier free trial run, Greg Clayman says The Daily still had a successful launch and “hundre… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper The Daily will be available in the UK within months, depending on when Apple’s new online subscription model… Read more »
Despite Spencer Reiss’ best efforts, The Daily publisher Greg Clayman would not say how many people had downloaded News Corp.’s publication… Read more »
News Corp.’s The Daily launched Feb. 2 with a two-week free trial sponsored by Verizon, ostensibly enough time to give potential subscribers… Read more »
If The Daily launched last Wednesday with breaking news sensibilities and an app that worked It would still have detractors who think it’s t… Read more »
With a value of $3 million and a reach that can’t be matched, an ad on the Fox broadcast of Super Bowl XLV is one of the biggest marketing w… Read more »
The Daily has all the elements to get people in the door: a splashy, hyped launch, the formidable marketing power of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) a… Read more »
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 »
Andy Baio has produced a swift, elegant index for TheDaily.com, the companion site for the new News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). iPad app. It’s a real… Read more »
One of the challenges facing staff at News Corp.’s just-launched The Daily is how to enjoy the marketing advantages of sharing news over the… Read more »
Following a burst of intense coverage, a quick post to explain something that got convoluted starting with Rupert Murdoch’s comments at The… Read more »
The big question about e-paper subscriptions is whether they can make enough money to support themselves. That question will be tested by Ne… Read more »
Some people were able to load The Daily right off but I ran into problems right away, perhaps because I started slightly before noon. Pages… Read more »
While all eyes are on the launch of News Corp.’s iPad newspaper, The Daily, today, tomorrow’s thoughts are focused on the NYT, which may fi… Read more »
Tuesday night’s soireee at Rupert Murdoch’s apartment and today’s Guggenheim press conference were just the beginning for the News Corp (NSD… Read more »
As is so often the case when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) folds in a new service, installing The Daily app requires agreeing to updated Terms and Cond… Read more »
After a change of location and a delay of two weeks, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). execs finally pulled up the curtain on its “iPad newspaper” The… Read more »
Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple’s decision to reject Sony’s Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused”… Read more »
Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development dire… Read more »
The Daily has switched coasts and launch dates but not the idea of a museum as a venue. Originally scheduled (but not formally announced) fo… Read more »
The Daily, still on track to launch in the next few weeks, will surprise people with its “depth and quality,” James Murdoch told DLD attende… Read more »
Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a web publisher, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowi… Read more »
Nic Newman’s Tigerspike, a digital design agency, has developed seven iPad apps for News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), including The Times’ Eureka and… Read more »
Another day, another hire at News Corp.’s super-duper secret iPad venture dubbed The Daily–and another reason to question whether this is g… Read more »
