Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY TimesNews 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.
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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.
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Is the WSJ hemorrhaging money?
Tipsters tell Gawker that the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal is on track to lose $100 million this year. Given the Journal is Murdoch’s big paywall success story, the news could cause a lot of red faces if true.
MySpace is now worthless
A few years ago, Rupert Murdoch purchased buzzing social network site MySpace for the bargain basement price of $580 million. How much is it worth these days? Next to nothing, estimates Henry Blodget.
Crikey Says: What Murdoch thinks of the media
The latest piece of measured media commentary from Rupert Murdoch shows him declaring that “the Philistine phase of the digital age is almost over”. Is he making sense?
Rupert the Sun King’s moral posture takes on a slouch
Over the weekend, Rupert Murdoch used some nasty language at the so-called World Media Summit in Beijing to slag off the likes of Google and Yahoo, describing them as content “kleptomaniacs” because they aggregate News Corporation’s content.
Greenslade: Murdoch has lost the plot
Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate hemorrhaged billions of dollars last year, and the media environment isn’t getting friendlier any time soon. So why is he gambling the entire empire on the hope that people will pay to read his websites? asks Roy Greenslade.
Wolff: Murdoch declares war on the internet
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to paywall all of News Corp’s online content is a call to arms against the internet, says Michael Wolff. It’s a war he can’t win, but that doesn’t mean business blood won’t be shed.
Stokes-Murdoch “showdown” a damp squib
It’s back to business as usual in the Australian media, with Stokes and Packer dividing up the juiciest bits of the industry, just as Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch did a decade or so ago.
Fairfax prevails in print, News dominates digital at Newspaper Awards
The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association’s annual awards were held last night, with News Digital Media winning in several online categories, but Fairfax picking up the most prestigious Newspaper of the Year award for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Dear Mr Murdoch…
An open letter from a senior editor at LA Fox News affiliate KTTV, asking Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch to intervene in the station’s deep layoffs.
News Corp harnesses the power of its global content
NewsCore is an in-house news wire that will make all of News Corp’s content instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets, says Stephen Brook. Is this the step before putting online content behind a paywall?
NYT and WSJ head for San Francisco
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are sticking some flowers in their hair and heading for San Francisco, where both papers are planning to launch local editions to capitalise on the city’s ailing newspaper industry.
Wankley Awards: James “independent media” Murdoch
James Murdoch this week launched an attack on the BBC, announcing that it’s essential for the “future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it”. So, no free news allowed.
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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.”