As News Corp sites prepare to erect paywalls around their content, the editor of the UK’s Times has finally revealed some bricks-and-mortar information about what it will be doing and when.
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Tim O’Reilly: The War for the Web is just getting started
Murdoch’s threat to take News Corp content out of Google’s results in just the beginning, says tech publisher Tim O’Reilly: big players like Facebook, Apple, and, yes, News Corp, are breaking off bits of the Web for themselves — and they won’t always want to share.
Looming GE-Comcast deal may out-flank Murdoch
While he has been obsessing about the internet and free content, Rupert Murdoch may be about to be out-flanked by the looming deal between General Electric and Comcast over NBC.
Why Murdoch won’t ditch Google
Rupert Murdoch’s threat to pull all News Corp sites from Google’s search index may not be as dire for the mastheads as many are predicting — but chances are he won’t follow through on it anyway: he’ll just erect even higher paywalls.
How Murdoch can really hurt Google
Rupert Murdoch’s recent rejection of Google may be less about news content and more about the search engine wars, suggests Michael Arrington: by de-indexing from Google, other search engines could pay him for the rights to index News Corp content.
Which News Corp sites are “stealing” content?
Rupert Murdoch has been a vociferous opponent of news aggregation sites “stealing” his News Corp content for profit — but are News websites just as guilty? Tech Dirt lists all of Murdoch’s sites currently aggregating other sites’ news and articles.
Brown gets revenge on Murdoch: Sky loses Ashes
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Sports will lose its exclusive rights to live coverage of The Ashes, in a move insiders say is “revenge” over the Sun’s criticism of PM Gordon Brown.
Rupert Murdoch: the internet does not exist
As of a year ago, Rupert Murdoch had never even used Google — so maybe he doesn’t realise that by cutting News Corp off from it, the organisation will cease to exist, writes Michael Wolff.
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Former editor: Murdoch’s NY Post aims to destroy Obama
The New York Post editor fired over that whole chimp cartoon saga has levelled some shocking allegations at the paper, amongst them, that the publication’s stated goal was to “destroy Barack Obama.”
Murdoch visits, spends a week talking to himself
Why do we keep listening to Rupert Murdoch? Is it because he doesn’t let us stop, with all interviews conducted by either employees or employees of an arm of News, directly or indirectly.
Murdoch gives Google the finger
Rupert Murdoch says he’s going to remove News Corp media sites — like The Australian and the WSJ — from Google search results once the company’s big paywall goes up. Yeah, who needs new readers anyway?
What if News Corp is the media’s last hope?
Playing “stacks on Rupert” for trying to make money from online content is the media’s latest favourite game. But at least he’s trying, says Neil Walker. Scary as it sounds, News Corp is possibly every other media companies’ best hope at survival.
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.
Crikey Says: Clash of the media titans at Media140
A certain slack-jawed wonderment ran around the room at yesterday’s Media140 conference in Sydney, when a senior News Ltd journalist rose to spruik the vested corporate interests of her employer…
Rupert’s pay-up model for newspapers on the back-burner
Amid all the throwaway lines and bullish spin, Rupert Murdoch and his executives always bury some truths in their comments about quarterly profits. Yesterday’s quarterly profit announcement was no exception.
Why newspapers act like political parties
British PM Gordon Brown has hit out at The Sun newspaper for trying to “become a political party”. Where has Gordon Brown been living all his life? asks Roy Greenslade: newspapers have been acting like political parties for more than a century.
Caroline Overington drops some hints on Rupert’s paywall plans (and tangles with Annabel Crabb)
Margaret Simons reports live from the Media140 conference in Sydney, where journalist Caroline Overington pissed off News Ltd by talking about its paywall plans, had a crack at the ABC, and clashed with Annabel Crabb.
News Corp revenue slumps 4.1%
Rupert Murdoch loves to act positive, so his 2009/2010 first quarter profit report was upbeat, focusing on the 9% rise of the consolidated operating income. Except, it’s the cost reductions and cuts that you should pay attention to.
MySpace surrenders to Facebook
MySpace has officially given up in its battle for social media supremacy with Facebook, the the company’s CEO now claiming it is far more interested in becoming “an online hub for music and entertainment.”
Would you pay Murdoch for articles like this…?
“Drunkest man ever tries to buy booze” is apparently what News Ltd’s Adelaide Now believes is news. Is this what Rupert Murdoch means when he talks about his engaging, original content? asks Ben Shepherd.
Mark Day: News does have content worth paying for — we just haven’t figured out what it is yet
Mark Dayleaps into the The Oz’s “Stacks-on ABC’s Mark Day” Day: Scott is wrong to dismiss paywalls on the grounds that much of News Corp’s content isn’t worth paying for: it is, and when Rupert works out what and why, he’ll let you know.
News bites back at the ABC
News Digital Media CEO Richard Freudenstein hits back at the “misguided commentary and criticism” of News Corp and its Dear Leader made by ABC chief Mark Scott last week.
An Alvin and the Chipmunks led revival
Rupert Murdoch at his annual News Corporation meeting looks to an Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel to provide News Corporation with a Happy Christmas.
Crikey Says: Murdoch works the news cycle
When it’s time to hold News Corp’s AGM over in the Big Apple, Rupert Murdoch knows exactly when to run it so it gets lost in “put out the trash Friday”. A nice way of avoiding the Aussie news.
The Atlantic / Thursday, 22 October 2009
So what if Fox News is conservative? asks Matthew Cooper. That’s no excuse for the White House to completely shun it: “If the White House can reach out to the Iranians and North Koreans, for gosh sakes, they can talk to Shepard Smith.”