NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitter rivals New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman may combine the printing, distribution and back office operations of their New York newspapers, a source familiar with the discussions said...
Almost alone in its field, the Wall Street Journal has been able to maintain its online paid subscription model when virtually every other news site has abandoned the paid-content approach. When he first took over the Journal last year, Rupert Murdoch said he would scrap the subscription...
Newspapers all over the U.S. may be losing advertising revenue, subscribers, and reporters in droves, but big bad media mogul Rupert Murdoch is on a buying spree. Since completing his takeover of the Wall Street Journal last December, Murdoch now holds two major newspapers (the other being...
Newspaper execs from The Big Chill generation might as well be singing "Monday, Monday"* along with The Mamas and the Papas, on their way in to start the workweek these days. Today's pro-forma dose of bad news starts with Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper chain,...
Watching the newspaper business self-destruct these past few years has been painful, like witnessing a horrible, slow-motion train crash. As one who's always liked newspapers -- and subscribed to lots of them -- I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. Even now, I can't help but notice...
Watching the newspaper business self-destruct these past few years has been painful, like witnessing a horrible, slow-motion train crash. As one who's always liked newspapers -- and subscribed to lots of them -- I'm gonna miss them when they're gone. Even now, I can't help but notice...
Facial coding, the idea that your expression gives away what you are really thinking, was put forth some 40 years ago by psychologist Paul Ekman . But does it work in business? Can you tell what CEOs really think, just by looking, or are they so carefully trained that...
How do you make a bundle quickly? Concentrate on making someone else's business better. That's what Flektor co-founder Jason Kay and his partners did when they developed a media mashup tool that made creating videos and sharing pictures on MySpace easier. The result? They were bought out for millions by...
Rupert Murdoch is all fired up about the potential for WSJ online — perhaps a little too fired up. Murdoch said that the site would drop its subscription model, and that he anticipates a massive increase in readership — from one million to 10-15 million — when the site becomes...
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has big plans for the Wall Street Journal once the $5 billion deal is finalized this year. Murdoch says he'll likely make WSJ.com free. Previously, all articles were offered only to subscribers. The Wall Street Journal would join some other large newspaper holdings to...
How do you replicate success? If anyone knows, it's Richard Rosenblatt. In 1999, Rosenblatt sold iMall to Excite@Home for $565 million. Five years later, as CEO of Intermix, he sold its MySpace property to NewsCorp for $580 million. Here, he shares insights on dealmaking, being in the room with Rupert...
With the Bancroft family, primary owner of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, finally agreeing Tuesday night to accept Rupert Murdoch's News Corp's $5 billion bid for the company, one would think that the soap opera would be over. But frenzied media coverage continues, mostly speculating...
In case you missed it, the Financial Times had a great column on James Murdoch, CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and son of Rupert Murdoch, and how he used a type of one-on-one crowdsourcing last month. Murdoch invited groups of British Sky Broadcasting customers to his office...
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has ruled out renewing any discussions to help Yahoo! Inc. fend off a possible takeover attempt by Microsoft Corp. "We're not interested in Yahoo," Murdoch told reporters Friday at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. Microsoft, based in Redmond,...
When the News of the World was launched in 1843, its proprietor, John Browne Bell, promised: "Our motto is the truth, our practice is the fearless advocacy of the truth." Formula One boss Max Mosley is not alone in questioning whether that pledge is still central to the paper's mission....
Rupert Murdoch "is putting his chequebook away". The News Corp boss's announcement to a summit of top media moguls in Sun Valley last week was the surest confirmation yet of the torrid time the media are now facing. Advertising revenues are tumbling, shares are in free fall and some of...
LONDON AFP — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., was overtaken by his son James for the first time in a ranking of the most powerful figures in British media published Monday. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page topped The Guardian's list of the most...
The humble gonad made another foray into the effete world of US political debate this week, and for once the word wasn't cojones. Eschewing the inoffensive Hispanic, that remarkable man of God, Jesse Jackson, went on Fox And Friends - not a Basil Brush revival, sadly, but an offering from...
Old glories Rupert Murdoch is a throwback to the days of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, the days when most major cities had multiple dailies duking it out on street corners for readers. That's how Mark Bowden describes Murdoch in a profile for the July/August edition of...
Jay Leno, popular host of 'The Tonight Show', backs away from retirement and puts NBC in a $45m bind Will Jay Leno go jaywalking? That's the multimillion-dollar question hanging over the future of America's most bankable late- night chat-show host. Five of the biggest...
