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A community portal about Rupert Murdoch with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Rupert Keith Murdoch AC, KCSG, is an Australian-American global media executive and is the top shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York City.
Japan's Sony Corp., seeking to gain ground on Amazon's popular Kindle, said Thursday that it will begin offering The Wall Street Journal and New York Post on its Daily Edition electronic reader. Sony said the digital version of the New York Post, the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., and Marketwatch.com, a News Corp.-owned online financial news service, will be exclusive to the Sony device. The Wall Street Journal, also owned by News Corp., is already available on the Kindle... Read Full Story
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Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New York Times. In November, 2009, according to comScore, Google News attracted 100 million unique visitors worldwide, making it a larger news site than CNN (66 million) or the... Read Full Story
The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday launched a Japanese-language version of its website featuring translations from the print and online editions of the newspaper and other Dow Jones publications. Japan.WSJ.com is operated by Wall Street Journal Japan KK, a joint venture between Dow Jones and SBI Holdings, Inc. of Japan. Dow Jones holds 60 percent while SBIH holds 40 percent. "Serving readers in their first language -- and the advertisers who aim to reach them -- is a critical component of... Read Full Story
Google is being unfairly scapegoated by newspaper publishers, and wants to help the troubled industry build online revenue, the chief executive of the Internet giant said. "With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in an opinion column published on Thursday in The Wall Street Journal. "Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit... Read Full Story
MURDOCH VS. GOOGLE
In a bid to loosen Google's dominance over online news, News Corp. () Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is talking with Microsoft about making his company's content available exclusively through the software giant's Bing search engine. But any deal to keep stories from The Wall Street Journal and other papers out of Google search results could do more harm than good for Murdoch and Microsoft.
Murdoch is considering a pairing with Bing because he believes Google benefits... Read Full Story
Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? The News Corp. chairman has prompted a fierce debate among media watchers with his accusation that Google is "stealing" from his vast newspaper empire and his threat to block the search engine from accessing its content. The 78-year-old Murdoch has already announced plans to make readers pay to read his newspapers online but his... Read Full Story
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Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents - the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc. Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters, Rupert Murdoch and Eric Schmidt are saying: the industry... Read Full Story
The New York Times’ David Carr takes a look at the Wall Street Journal, two years after the paper was sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Under Murdoch, it’s ’tilting rightward’ with a broadening array of news content he says.
“[U]nder Mr. Murdoch’s leadership, the newspaper is no longer anchored by those deep dives into the boardrooms of American business with quaint stippled portraits, opting instead for a much broader template of breaking general interest news articles with a... Read Full Story
The Wall Street Journal is shutting its Boston bureau and eliminating nine jobs, marking the second round of cuts at the newspaper this year. In a memo to employees Thursday, Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson said the newspaper remains "in the midst of a profound downturn in advertising revenue." The Journal, owned by News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co., cut about two dozen reporting and editing jobs in February, shutting its New York-based fashion and retail group and eliminating a handful of... Read Full Story
The climate change skeptics may be a lonely lot in Copenhagen, but no one disputes that they have had an effect, however hard to quantify. British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown , recently cautioned against the public being distracted by the "anti-science, flat-earth climate skeptics" while Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, derided them as being the "comfortable bedfellows of the global conspiracy theorists."
While very few of the skeptics have any scientific credentials in climate... Read Full Story
