The WSJ has been targeting the NYT’s luxury retail advertisers for over a year, but with the expected debut of the News Corp-owned paper’s NYC metro section in April, the ad war will officially begin, AdAge reports. While the NYT has expressed confidence in its ability to maintain its long-standing…

While Murdoch’s footsoldiers rush to charge for consumer news like WSJ.com does for biz content, and while WSJ.com itself continues its European expansion, one part of the pie is often overlooked… Financial News, DJ’s subscription site covering the London securities market, has redesigned and maintained its place in the Wall…

News Corp earnings were up across the board, as the company swung to a profit of $254 million ($0.10) in Q4, reversing $6.4 billion loss. The company said this reflected double-digit growth at its “majority business segments.” Even the newspaper/information segment was up, gaining 29.5 percent over last year’s period.…

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Current Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli exited his one-year stint as managing editor of the WSJ with $6.4 million, Politico says, citing a new book about News Corp.‘s purchase of the newspaper’s parent, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), a little more than two years ago.

With advertising still struggling, the WSJ is expanding its commerce offerings by getting into travel services. The site, WSJ Travel, will sell and promote vacation packages. Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), the WSJ’s parent, makes it clear that the travel site is separate from the paper’s editorial side. The travel effort…

Less than a month after the surprise announcement that Todd Larsen had been promoted to president of Dow Jones and Clare Hart was out, Larsen is filling in his own org chart for the combined consumer and enterprise businesses. The new set up is divided into five business groups, each…

A new year and a new org chart for Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) & Company: Clare Hart, president of the Enterprise Media Group and an EVP, is leaving and Todd Larsen is the survivor, moving to president of Dow Jones and heading all business ops as the company combines its…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has struck a deal with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). that gives the electronics company the opportunity to sell subscriptions to the WSJ digital edition of the WSJ, as well its Dow Jones sibling MarketWatch, plus exclusive rights the digitized New York Post, on its Daily Edition e-reader.…

More change in the Wall Street Journal edit ranks, this time spurred by the defection of Nik Deogun to CNBC. Rebecca Blumenstein, who had been managing editor for online, was promoted to International Editor/DME, taking Deogun’s spot in the WSJ edit “troika” made of the three deputy managing editors heading…

You could almost hear Rupert Murdoch choking on his Corn Flakes last week, when reading - in his own paper, the WSJ - Eric Schmidt’s defensive op-ed that “frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame” for their travails. So Rupe has done what comes pretty easily; he’s penned…

WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson is known for his one-line zingers. He famously told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer earlier this fall that her search engine was encouraging “promiscuity.” He also riled some writers at the WSJ just after his arrival by declaring that some of the paper’s longer-form…

Roughly 30,000 users subscribe the Wall Street Journal Kindle Edition, *Dow Jones* head Les Hinton told the Paley Center conference Rafat is attending this morning—great for a “primitive device.” Put that way, it suggests the potential for a nice income as devices get more sophisticated and and more models with…

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: NWS). chairman and CEO was interviewed by some of his own newsies, including a lengthy video session with Sky News political editor David Speers,…

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 images of the pages, embedded below, so you can take a look. If you’re in the Bay Area, have you checked out the New York Times…

[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 powerful newspaper editor in America. The Wall Street Journal has claimed top spot in circulation rankings and its boss seems intent on marshalling a…

The Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau, leaving in place an “investigative function.” Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) will keep its Newswires bureau and MarketWatch team. In a memo to the staff (embedded below), Editor-in-Chief Robert Thomson said the core reporting team would be disbanded and that the nine…

News Corp.‘s Wall Street Journal is further setting its European edition apart from its US counterpart by adding features to the London-based print edition and website. At the same time, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) will stop printing and selling the US edition in Europe, and will instead encourage readers to…

Newspaper circulation at the 379 daily newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations was down 10.6 percent, the organization’s latest Fas-Fax numbers show (sub. req.). The numbers compare the six months ending Sept. 30, 2009, to the year-earlier six-month period. The New York Times went from over 1 million…

Rupert Murdoch promised his shareholders when News Corp (NYSE: NWS). acquired Dow Jones that the company’s content was ripe for premium products—and execs have been signaling for months that something was on the way from the Wall Street Journal. Turns out the first entry—and the only coming in 2009—is a…