Guardian: Charlie Brooker on James Murdoch and his media empire
Saturday, 5 September 2009, 14:11
"Damien Thorn, offspring of Satan, was educated at Yale before inheriting a global business conglomerate at a shockingly young age and using it to hypnotise millions in a demonic bid to hasten Armageddon. James Murdoch's story is quite different. He went to Harvard."
Media Guardian: News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 22:11
"Asked whether he envisaged fees at his British papers such as the Times, the Sunday Times, the Sun and the News of the World, he replied: 'We're absolutely looking at that.' Taking questions on a conference call with reporters and analysts, he said that moves could begin 'within the next 12 months‚' adding: 'The current days of the internet will soon be over.'"
Community Care: Mad World: Sun shortlisted for Baby P campaign award: our response
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 19:53
Simeon Brody: "We discovered yesterday that The Sun had been shortlisted for a Press Gazette [British Press Award] for its Baby P campaign. We found this very concerning and expect our readers will as well."
The Sun: He’s h-air Lehmann
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 15:04
The Sun has picked up the story of Jens Lehmann's helicopter flights. That'll be the story that Bildblog reported had been nicked from a local blogger by Bild….
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 18:01
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Strangely, the IoS neglects to [barely] mention[s] the Independent's debut figure in a review of the ABCes.
Saturday, 24 May 2008, 12:35
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"Made-up bullshit still drives huge traffic, if it’s marketed right."
Saturday, 1 March 2008, 19:40
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At the foot of The Sun’s report: "Set your desktop with Prince Harry wallpaper"
Sunday, 9 December 2007, 11:17
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"Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers, including the News of the World, The Times and The Sun, are expected to accelerate their push into online journalism under the media mogul’s 34-year-old son, James."
Monday, 12 November 2007, 07:51
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"I think we are the only newspaper that overtly markets itself as paper, online and mobile. It’s the combination of those three things which is the really important result. We do not look in isolation around newspaper circulation; that’s just one element.
Friday, 2 November 2007, 09:21
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In the absense of better metrics, Martin Belam has created an Google Reader readership league table for national newspapers’ RSS feeds. The Guardian’s latest news comes top, with 49,448 subscribers to its ‘UK latest’ feed
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 10:12
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Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine reports from the AOP and says Fleet Street’s overseas readership online is UK papers on course for "journalistic world domination" online. Times editor Robert Thomson: "our content causes echos around the world".
Saturday, 29 September 2007, 13:18
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Dan Sabbagh’s media column covers some Google’s Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge’s effect on Mail Online’s traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 13:23
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"Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?"
Sunday, 9 September 2007, 13:19
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"Remember that half the capital’s population come from overseas now … You might as well rename the News of the World the Punday Times. It’s a dated, dowdy exercise in mass incomprehension."
