Observer: Look again and Fleet Street’s disasters may only be on paper
Sunday, 23 November 2008, 13:52
Peter Preston: "Mail Online's startling growth still only added up to £9m in revenue last year. But halfway to salvation is much better than stuck in the starting blocks - and when Mr [Murdoch] says that his Wall Street Journal will take $100m in net service subscriptions and another $100m in web advertising this year, you can glimpse a future beginning to happen."
Press Gazette: Rupert Murdoch: ‘Newspapers will reach new heights’
Monday, 17 November 2008, 15:59
"I like the look and feel of newsprint as much as anyone," [Rupert Murdoch] said. "But our real business isn't printing on dead trees. It's giving our readers great journalism and great judgement. … Murdoch said The Wall Street Journal was planning to offer three tiers of content online - free news, a subscriber-level service, and a third "premium service" of reader-customisable "high-end financial news and analysis". … "The newspaper, or a very close electronic cousin, will always be around," he said. "It may not be thrown on your front doorstep the way it is today."
Beet.TV: The Journal Trains Reporters to Produce Online Video
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 00:03
"As part of a strategy to integrate online video with the reporting, The [Wall Street] Journal trains reporters on a regular basis in New York and San Francisco to use Sony HDR-HC9 cameras."
Virtual Economics: Outsource the specific, not the general
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:32
Seamus McCauley on BreakingViews deals with the NY Times and Telegraph: "… there's a market for maybe half a dozen finance and markets columns and everyone who's serious about their content in this space will duly move to provide it as a wire; that every newspaper really doesn't need its own trivial variation on the same content but will ultimately pick one or perhaps two of these central ones…"
Portfolio: Murdoch: I Won’t Put the ‘Times’ Out of Business
Thursday, 11 September 2008, 07:11
Rupert Murdoch tp Esquire: "It's bullshit to say we're going to dumb down The Wall Street Journal. We didn't dumb down the London Times — we made the London Times. The Sunday Times, too. Are they a little more popular than they were? Yes. They are populist papers. You've got to listen to readers."
Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 07:07
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"Marcus Brauchli … [the] former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, will take over as the [Washington] Post’s executive editor in September, replacing Leonard Downie."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 10:57
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"[O]dds are that the [WSJ's] online subscription revenues are now closer to $10 million a year than $89 million as people go for the combo offer. It might even be less than the $18 million more the NYT makes with ads online."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 10:10
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"WSJ.com reached 16.2 million unique users in June, a whopping 94 percent increase versus the same month last year based on the company’s internal traffic numbers." And it’s still not free…
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 13:48
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Review of the Amazon Kindle: "Print devotees will likely find Amazon’s newfangled e-reader an imperfect substitute for the old-fashioned newspaper—even if it saves trees."
Monday, 28 April 2008, 11:28
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"Robert Thompson] may be the publisher [of the Wall Street Journal] but his responsibilities include few of the business tasks that title usually connotes. ‘I’m the head of content, that’s the simplest way to say it,’ he said."
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 07:38
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"According to internal numbers, WSJ.com hosted 15 million unique visitors in March, a 175 percent increase over March 2007…"
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 14:00
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Google News’ Josh Cohen explains how Google works effectively with publishers who have pay walls,like the The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times.
Friday, 21 March 2008, 13:43
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How to (ab?)use the Wall Street Journal’s first-click-free approach to Google News and Digg to get free access to the bits behind the paywall …
