Should it surprise anyone that the corporate culture that produced industrial-scale phone hacking in Britain was also at work elsewhere? Hardly.
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Crikey Says: Another wheel falls off Murdoch train wreck
News Corp’s bizarre idea of a whistleblower site
News Corp’s effort to copy Wikileaks is an IT debacle - but worse is to come when you read the fine print.
Beware of the WSJ’s shoddy WikiLeaks knockoff
The Wall Street Journal this week launched Safehouse, its very own version of WikiLeaks. But beware: there is a dodgy caveat in its terms of use and numerous security flaws, writes Adrian Chen.
Losing your money with Rupert
There is no wonder that the News Limited papers are so quick to spot wasteful spending by governments, the company is a specialist on the subject, with shareholders down $US25 billion since the purchase of the Wall Street Journal, reports Richard Farmer.
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The US embassy cables: to publish or not to publish?
In the latest WikiLeaks US embassy cables dump, a variety of news organisations — think Le Monde, the NY Times, The Guardian etc — all got first dibs on the documents. The Wall Street Journal declined the offer. Here’s why.
Letter from...: Hong Kong, where democracy has stalled
As well as being a base for international finance and banking giants who want proximity to mainland China, Hong Kong has its own business interests to facilitate, writes freelance journalist Simon Roughneen.
It’ll cost Obama $600,00 to read the WSJ
For over a decade in Washington, government staff have read a daily organised wrap of press clippings from major publications. Except, Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has decided to up the price for WSJ clippings by a whopping $600,000.
The price of paywalls: blocking out the bloggers
The most popular outlets for bloggers to link to are traditional news sites like NY Times and the BBC. So how will the proposed NY Times paywall affect its blogger audience?
Why we can no longer trust the WSJ
On Tuesday, the Wall St Journal ran a front-page photo of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan playing softball. It was clearly implying she is a lesbian, says Ryan Chittum: this never would have happened at the pre-Murdoch Journal.
WSJ vs. NYT: the smacktalk showdown
The war of words between the Wall Street Journal and New York Times over the Journal’s new New York section has gotten dirty. Village Voice scores the verbal slugfest.
Shafer: Murdoch wants New York’s love, not its money
Look at moi, look at moi: the WSJ’s new New York section is more about winning over the people of New York than it is about ad dollars or sales revenue, says Jack Shafer.
NYT vs. WSJ: the last great newspaper war?
The Wall Street Journal is muscling in on the New York Times’ territory, launching a local New York section. Is this really the last great newspaper war, or just the first great battle of the online news age? asks Wired.
The history of the WSJ hedcut
The Wall Street Journal takes you through the history and evolution of its iconic hedcut drawings. Each is still hand-drawn by an army of artists and can take up to five hours to complete.
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Mad Murdoch and his media legacy
An in depth profile by NY Mag on the aging Rupert Murdoch’s holy media missions, including his hatred of lazy liberal journalists, his obsession with the Wall Street Journal and his plan to bleed the NY Times dry.
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The WSJ accuses the NYT of plagiarism
The Guardian has a copy of a letter sent from the Wall St Journal to the
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No Christmas spirit in the public service
Which was the tight-arsed government department that docked everyone’s pay (or forced them to make up the time!) because of some employees leaving five minutes early on Christmas Eve?
WSJ vs. NYT
The Wall Street Journal is a little pissed about a recent New York Times piece claiming the Journal has shifted rightward under Rupert Murdoch’s ownership. It’s snarky press releases at 20 paces.
How Rupert ruined the WSJ
On the second anniversary of Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of the Wall Street Journal, current and former writers say his conservative politics have tainted the paper’s editorial objectivity and quality.
Murdoch lieutenant: “Free costs too much”
The CEO of News Corp publisher Dow Jones, Les Hinton, has — surprise, surprise — come out in defence of the company’s move to paywall all its content, denouncing the “false gospel of the web”: “We were promised that eyeballs meant advertising, clicks meant cash”.
Which print pubs have the richest readers?
Silicon Valley Insider charts newspapers and magazines with the wealthiest readerships. Wall Street Journal readers are the most cashed-up, while The Atlantic, The Economist and Architectural Digest readers also break the 100k mark.
Crikey Says: Paywalls: the tricky trouble with the internets
Rupert Murdoch has had a lot to say lately about the internet, and how a modern media mogul might milk it for corporate gain. Luckily, we can milk it right back.
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.
WSJ weighs in with "Aussie Mac" in the making
The Wall Street Journal has thrown its weight behind an Aussie Mac in the making, writes Joshua Gans. Should Australia review its financial regulations in light of future GFCs?
rumour 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.
media death watch Far Eastern Economic Review to close
Publisher Dow Jones is canning its excellent Far Eastern Economic Review journal after 63 years. Although now a skeleton of its former self, the publication will leave a large hole in the pan-Asian press industry, which can hopefully be filled by the WSJ Asia.
