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- Murdoch's Attack Dog Snarls At the 'Parasites'
- [by Andrew Clark] If you go by the numbers, a slim Australian with a sharp tongue and a penchant for ultra-skinny ties has become the most powerful newspaper editor in America. The Wall Street Journal has claimed top spot in circulation rankings and its boss seems intent on marshalling...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Media Pros Say Journalism Has Improved In The Internet Age
- For the European Digital Journalism Survey 2009, 350 European journalists were asked what impact the internet had on journalism - and the outcome is surprising. Even though it appears whining is part of everyday journalism work these days - and some would say it was ever thus - journalists...
- External links 2009-09-19
- More Cuts Coming, Guardian News & Media Boss Warns Staff
- By Stephen Brook: The managing director of Guardian News & Media, Tim Brooks, has told staff that more cost savings at the publisher of The Guardian and Observer are on the way.Brooks told staff in a memo posted on the company intranet yesterday that the current rate of losses...
- External links 2009-09-15
- BBC Considering Selling Part of Its Worldwide Division
- [by Jane Martinson] BBC executives are considering the part- privatisation of the corporation’s lucrative commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, as part of a wide-ranging review, the director general, Mark Thompson, has told the Guardian.Among the options under consideration is a stockmarket listing of the business, which had annual revenues of...
- External links 2009-09-14
- News Corp Launches Global Service To Link All Its Outlets
- By Stephen Brook: News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is launching a global service that will make all its news stories and videos instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets.The service, called NewsCore, will operate like a global wire service for all the company’s newspapers,...
- External links 2009-09-07
- Guardian Going Ahead With Readers' Club
- By Chris Tryhorn: The Guardian is to hire a manager to run a planned readers’ club that could build a new revenue stream for the paper. Offered as a one-year contract, the job is advertised in the MediaGuardian print section and on its website today.The Guardian – owned by...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Out of Little Rock: A Model for Murdoch
- [by Andrew Clark] Tucking into a pulled pork platter in a Little Rock barbecue restaurant, the publisher of Arkansas’s largest newspaper appears an unlikely pioneer for the global media industry. Bald, bespectacled and with a penchant for panama hats, he is about as old-school as they come.But Walter Hussman...
- External links 2009-08-23
- Out of Little Rock: A Model for Murdoch
- [by Andrew Clark] Tucking into a pulled pork platter in a Little Rock barbecue restaurant, the publisher of Arkansas’s largest newspaper appears an unlikely pioneer for the global media industry. Bald, bespectacled and with a penchant for panama hats, he is about as old-school as they come.But Walter Hussman...
- External links 2009-08-23
- No More Easy Living for Conde Nast
- [by James Robinson] Early in September, as models and magazine editors arrive in the capital for London fashion week, a report by management consultants McKinsey & Co is set to land on the desk of "Si" Newhouse Jr at Vogue publisher Condé Nast. The octogenarian chairman of the luxury...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Are 15- to 24-Year-Olds Cooling On Social Networks?
- From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no...
- External links 2009-08-06
- It's Media Day At SpinVox
- We weren't invited to SpinVox's technology demo on Tuesday morning, but we didn't take offence; honest. The reception sounded like an effort to woo mostly bloggers, complete with pastries and minibuses, to get them to think positive thoughts about the company. Did it work? Here's what happened at the...
- External links 2009-08-04
- UK's Times Online's Paid Plans: Charging For '24-Hour Access To Digital Edition'
- By Chris Tryhorn: James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start charging for its journalism online.Pledging to “rewrite the economics of newspapers”, Harding said the Times would charge for 24-hour access to that day’s edition of...
- External links 2009-11-17
- Link Happy: Are News Sites Contributing To Information Overload?
- By Mercedes Bunz: It was about a year ago, that the media expert Jeff Jarvis proclaimed: ““Links are the currency of the new media economy.”.”But as with every currency, there might be inflation. Nick Bilton illustrates in the upcoming Wired UK that news sites learned that lesson - but...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Financial Times Strikes Bloomberg TV Deal For Lex Columnists
- By Katie Allen: The Financial Times Lex commentary team is hoping to raise its profile and revenues thanks to a deal with business news broadcaster Bloomberg TV.Lex columnists will appear on the financial channel every weekday to expand on commentary addressed in the day’s column. In a collaboration that...
- External links 2009-09-22
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- Pepsi sorry for 'sexist' iPhone app
- Drinks firm PepsiCo accused by Twitter users of stereotyping women with iPhone app suggesting pick-up lines PepsiCo has apologised after it was accused of stereotyping women with an iPhone application for its Amp Energy drink helping users "score" on a date. The app featured 24...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Tories to launch Spotify ad campaign
- Forty-second Spotify ad makes Conservatives the first UK political party to exploit internet music service The Conservatives are to become the first UK political party to run a marketing campaign on the internet music service Spotify, in a bid to target the hard-to-reach youth audience. ...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Lord Mandelson sets date to block filesharers' connections
- Campaign against illegal filesharers will begin with warning letters only, but with option of blocks from summer 2011 Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, warned internet users today that the days of "consequence-free" illegal filesharing are over as he unveiled the government's plan for cracking down on...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Office of Fair Trading to investigate targeted ads and pricing online
- OFT investigation to consider user data in targeted and behavioural advertising online, and price comparison sites The Office of Fair Trading is to launch an investigation into how the habits and personal information of web users are used to target internet advertising.Competition regulators said they had been prompted to launch...
- News items 2009-08-20
- eBay set to sell Skype on Wednesday
- Online auction company poised to announce sale of internet telephony firm in $2bn deal, according to reports eBay is set to announce the sale of Skype to a group of private investors, four years after acquiring the internet telephony firm in a deal ultimately worth $3.1bn...
- News items 2009-09-01
- eBay sells 65% stake in Skype for $1.9bn
- Online auction house eBay offloads majority stake in internet telephony group Skype to investment consortium Online auction house eBay has sold a 65% stake in Skype to an investment consortium that includes the founder of Netscape, in a deal that values the internet telephony group at...
- News items 2009-09-01
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