Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:07 PM
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…
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Jeff Roberts
Nov 22, 2011 8:51 AM
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:» Penguin pulls e-books from libraries across the land, citing “security concerns” (paidContent) » Oh, HP: Firm’s Q4 results report billions squandered on Palm (NYSE: HPQ) and webOS (The Verge) » Oh, Netflix: Company dilutes itself with new stock issue, will…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 18, 2011 6:22 AM
Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclosed minority stake, worth $11 million, in TigerSpike, a developer of apps for blue-chip publishers like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). The Economist, Telegraph Media Group and Mail…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 15, 2011 8:04 PM
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making good a Dow Jones that was considering options with management consultants before News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). stepped in to buy it. But for twelve years before that,…
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Robert Andrews
May 5, 2011 5:42 AM
The Telegraph, with its long-awaited version-two iPad app, out today, is the latest news publisher to try reasserting a paid news economy for its newspaper in digital tablet form.
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Ingrid Lunden
May 1, 2011 6:33 PM
The numbers are coming in on just how many people tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton. While some are highly skeptical that the event pulled in the 2 billion viewers that the UK government predicted, the event—especially if you count not just the live,…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 17, 2011 5:17 AM
The response from many publishers to Apple’s subscription announcement has been a shellshocked “errrr…” - many are confused exactly how they are impacted and are quickly seeking clarity from Apple.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 7, 2011 7:24 AM
The Telegraph is amongst the newspapers chasing web audiences by analysing exactly what potential readers are looking for.
Its list of “The best voucher codes” popped in to my RSS reader this morning, telling readers how to save money whilst shopping online.
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Robert Andrews
Nov 30, 2010 11:50 AM
Here we go. Telegraph Media Group, like many media groups, has, for several months now, been reviewing digital opportunities including whether it can charge for content. Now the FT reports that The Telegraph‘s site will begin charging next year.
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Peter Preston
TheObserver (Guardian)
Oct 18, 2010 12:58 PM
The woe, as usual, is more or less unconfined. September’s daily newspaper circulation figures, as audited by ABC (NYSE: DIS), are down 5.31% in a year: Sunday totals are 6.7% off the pace. And, of course, we all know what’s to blame. It’s the infernal internet, the digital revolution, the…
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May 5, 2010 4:22 PM
By Jane Martinson and Jason Deans: Will Lewis has been pushed out of the Telegraph Media Group after a disagreement with chief executive Murdoch MacLennan over the future direction of the publisher, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. The shock departure comes just a month after Lewis, editor in chief and managing director,…
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Patrick Smith
Nov 26, 2009 6:58 AM
UK’s Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Will Lewis is becoming the company’s managing director for digital, and will head a new “entrepreneurial” division with 50 staff to lead the company’s search for new revenue streams. Lewis retains his editor-in-chief role across print and online, but Daily Telegraph deputy editor Tony Gallagher…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 6, 2007 12:52 PM
A fascinating insight in to how News Corp regards Google (NSDQ: GOOG) - Times Online editor Anne Spackman said the search site is “hugely dangerous”. At a Society Of Editors conference Q&A (via Journalism.co.uk): “The number one topic of conversation at News Corp is Google. Its move into DNA is…
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