In WSJ Op-Ed, Rupe Offers His Two Cents On Free News
You could almost hear Rupert Murdoch choking on his Corn Flakes last week, when reading – in his own paper, the WSJ – Eric Schmidt’s defensi… Read more »
Thomson: Up To 290 WSJ Reporters Would Be Jobless If Site Had Gone Free
WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson is known for his one-line zingers. He famously told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer earlier this fal… Read more »
DJ’s Hinton: WSJ Has 30,000 Kindle Subs
Roughly 30,000 users subscribe the Wall Street Journal Kindle Edition, *Dow Jones* head Les Hinton told the Paley Center conference Rafat is… Read more »
Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast
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Rupert Murdoch was in Sydney for the latest News Corp earnings call but that wasn’t the only talking he did down under. The News Corp (NYSE:… Read more »
A Peek At The Wall Street Journal’s New Bay Area Edition
The Wall Street Journal’s Bay Area Edition debuted today. Not in the neighborhood? We asked the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) premium case study for… Read more »
Murdoch’s Attack Dog Snarls At the ‘Parasites’
[by Andrew Clark] If you go by the numbers, a slim Australian with a sharp tongue and a penchant for ultra-skinny ties has become the most p… Read more »
WSJ Closes Boston Bureau; Memo From Thomson
The Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau, leaving in place an “investigative function.”
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) will keep its New… Read more »
Wall Street Journal Continues European Push With Paper, Online Revamp
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News Corp.’s Wall Street Journal is further setting its European edition apart from its US counterpart by adding features to the London-base… Read more »
Fas-Fax: Daily Newspaper Circ Drops 10 Percent; NYT Down, WSJ Up
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Newspaper circulation at the 379 daily newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations was down 10.6 percent, the organization’s la… Read more »
Dow Jones Adds Premium WSJ Pro To Competition For Business Subs
Rupert Murdoch promised his shareholders when News Corp (NYSE: NWS). acquired Dow Jones that the company’s content was ripe for premium prod… Read more »
@ AOP: Murdoch On Paywalls Is ‘The Flip-Flopper In Chief’
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Paying-for-content was the hot topic at this year’s Association of Online Publishers summit in London on Wednesday, thanks to Rupert Murdoch… Read more »
WSJ’s McLeod: ‘No Brainer’ To Charge For Mobile; ‘We’re About To See What Really Works’
While others stress over whether to try paywalls and fees, the Wall Street Journal does the Murdoch March to its own drummer. Or, as Gordon… 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 »
Interview: Handmark CEO Paul Reddick On Making Murdoch’s WSJ Mobile App
The man behind The Wall Street Journal’s pay-for mobile app says charging for content isn’t the sole answer for mobile publishers–ads, he s… Read more »
WSJ Mobile Pay Plans Start Next Month; Includes Browser Access
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Rupert Murdoch’s plans to charge for mobile access to the Wall Street Journal kick into full gear next month, with $104 fees for non-print o… Read more »
Communacopia Highlights: Bewkes On TV Everywhere, Diller On Bewkes, And More
The Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference has wrapped up day two of the three-day CEO-fest. Here’s a sampling of notable comments from… Read more »
Communacopia: Murdoch: We'll Start Charging For WSJ Mobile Apps
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The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman R… Read more »
Welcome To Publishing Waterloo, NYT and WSJ
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I live in the Bay Area, a place that has been, in the past 20 or so years, woefully underserved by what those in the quality news business c… Read more »
Industry Moves: Arqiva's Platform Controller; Emap Inform; Wellington Capital WSJ Europe; Bauer
– Arqiva: The broadcast transmission company has appointed John Keeling, the former controller and COO of UKTV, as platform controller for… Read more »
Industry Moves: WSJ Adds European Opinion Editor
The Wall Street Journal continues its European expansion from its new London HQ, moving its Global View column editor Bret Stephens to be de… Read more »
WSJ’s New Policy: Won’t Take Herd Embargoes
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The Wall Street Journal has a new policy for its editorial staff, we have learned: it will not accept embargoes for stories, but will take e… Read more »
WSJ.com Combo-Pricing Bargain Continues To Confuse
When Pali’s Rich Greenfield sent out a note Wednesday with the eye-catching headline Wall Street Journal Now Willing to Give Away Online Acc… Read more »
Industry Moves: Former Dow Jones Head Zannino Joins PE Firm CCMP
Former Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino has joined private-equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors. Zannino will be part of CCMP’s investment committ… Read more »
WSJ Launches Financial Jobs Site Fins.com; More Coming?
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The Wall Street Journal has launched a new financial-jobs site Fins.com, its first jobs/career launch since it started with CareerJournal wa… 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 »
WSJ Asks iPhone App Users If They Would Pay
Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How… Read more »
Livemint.com Managing Editor Durga Raghunath To Join WSJ India
As part of its continuing expansion of services focussed on the Indian market, The Wall Street Journal has hired Durga Raghunath, managing e… Read more »
Will Dow Jones’ Payment System Be Expanded For Third-Party Content?
Updated: DJ has refused to comment on this.
Is *Dow Jones*, part of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) empire, working on a payment system that wou… Read more »
Industry Moves: WSJ.com’s M.E. Latour To Head Asian Operations; Blumenstein To Replace Him
The Wall St. Journal announced several personnel changes this afternoon, including that Almar Latour, who has been managing editor of WSJ.co… Read more »
Nielsen Numbers Disputed Again: This Time It’s The New York Times
Eight newspaper sites in the top 30 experienced drops in monthly unique visitors in April, according to Nielsen Online — and at least two a… Read more »
