NYT and WSJ head for San FranciscoThe 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.
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EXPOSED: Mark Penn uses his WSJ column to pimp for clients
A leaked email exchange exposes PR firm Burson-Marsteller trying to drum up business from camping equipment brands and retailers off the back of a column written by the company’s CEO Mark Penn about the new “trend” of “glamping” (that’s err, “glamorous camping”) in the WSJ.
Is the WSJ finally succumbing to News Corp bias?
The Wall Street Journal has long been known for high-quality journalism and unbiased reporting. But two years after its acquisition by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is the alleged bias of which the likes of Fox News and the NY Post are accused starting to seep into the masthead?
WSJ says no to embargoes
The Wall Street Journal will now only honour media embargoes when it has a story exclusively, says paidContent — embargoed stories sent to multiple media outlets are fair game.
Ask the economists: China growth to slow
A survey of 10 economists by the Wall Street Journal indicates that Sino growth is set to moderate in the next few quarters. And that’s bad news for the West.
Murdoch’s WSJ: two years on
Two years since Rupert Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal, and fears he’d stuff it up seem unfounded: the paper is still going strong, but has undergone a significant image and content makeover.
Google is a ‘digital vampire’, says WSJ publisher
By profiting from content it doesn’t produce, Google is “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper industry, says Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton.
Wall Street Journal moves house … to Murdochville
The Journal is moving the bulk of its reporting operation to floors four through eight at the building staffers call the Death Star. At the News Corp nest, Murdoch will make The Journal work. Hard.
WSJ staff ordered not to mix “business and pleasure” on Twitter
The Wall Street Journal have issued a directive to staff on how they may and may not use social media sites.
Rupert hedges his bets: locks up WSJ while chasing Hulu
Once again we have an example of Rupert Murdoch saying something and doing something completely different on the same subject: the internet.
Murdoch’s secret plan to charge for content
Murdoch has gobbled up many media assets in recent times — from the Wall Street Journal to MySpace, writes Stryker McGuire. Now it turns out, he’s got bigger plan for them. Cue evil laughter.
The WSJ ain’t what she used to be
The Wall Street Journal has moved away from what once made it great, says the Columbia Journalism Review.
Media gets knickers in knot over Rupert’s Wall Street Journal
When Rupert buys media, he gives it the full Murdoch treatment… and not everyone likes it.
Media briefs: Albrechtsen tells the left to lighten up
Guy Rundle responds to Janet Albrechtsen’s comments about lefties; WSJ maps newspapers’ deaths and Ten stops doing the Bartman.
Subscriber only: how to make paywalls work
The Wall Street Journal was a pioneer of subscriber-only content and they did it really, really well… what happened?
Get over it media giants, we’re going to co-opt your copy
Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition, says Slate’s Jack Shafer.
What would Sir Keith think about losing $4.4 billion on one deal?
What was once easily the biggest Australian company is now in danger of falling out of the top 10, writes Stephen Mayne.
Beecher: The unravelling economics of newspapers
Under enormous pressure to prop up their bottom lines, newspapers in most developed countries are resorting to a cocktail of short-term measures, writes Eric Beecher.
Stuff we like: Stuff we like
Sebastian Faulks channels Ian Fleming in Devil May Care, Tracey Spicer reviews Boned, and the WSJ discovers the fairer sex.
Be warned, Murdoch is an old man in a hurry
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch had a big day. He sacked the editor of the Wall Street Journal and he almost finalised a deal to buy Newsday. All in a day’s work for the world’s hungriest media owner, writes Crikey publisher Eric Beecher.
My Wall Street Journal: We distort. You decide
A parody of The Wall Street Journal on US newsstands this week to mark the April 15 tax deadline dubbed ‘My Wall Street Journal’ has pissed off News Corp executives so much that Wall Street Journal reps are running around town buying up copies to prevent people from seeing them.
Centro trading halt has investors fearing the worst
Centro’s trading halt is just part of the extraordinary global credit crunch which saw some more remarkable developments over night, writes Stephen Mayne.
Fox Business Channel gets ready for lift-off
It’s all hands to the panic stations at Sky News and at The Australian as the launch date for the Australian version of the Fox Business Channel approaches, writes Glenn Dyer.
Rupert drops to 10%, imposes kids on shareholders
There has been a truckload of commentary in the non-Murdoch press about James Murdoch’s ascension to the third most senior position at News Corporation, but one little explored angle is the role of Lachlan Murdoch and Australia, writes Stephen Mayne.
Game on – the campaign to end Rupert’s News Corp gerrymander
It’s game on for one of the biggest shareholder activism campaigns Australia has seen and News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch is in the frame.
