Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Drops Idea of Digital Newsstand
Friday, 22 October 2010, 10:43
"News Corp. has shelved an ambitious plan to create a digital newsstand designed to help the publishing industry generate subscription revenue from the Web, according to a person familiar with the matter."
FT.com: News Corp looks at unit for tablet devices
Friday, 30 July 2010, 11:15
"News Corp is nearing a decision on whether to start a news organisation to provide content for a subscription application on digital tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad, according to people close to the plans. … News Corp is making “an honest attempt” at transforming journalism, one person close to the plans said. Separately, a long-awaited subscription news aggregation service, called Project Alesia internally, is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter with content from the New York Post, Dow Jones and a variety of external news partners, people briefed on the plans said."
New York Magazine: A Look Inside the Life of News Corp. Mogul and Raging Septuagenarian Rupert Murdoch
Monday, 1 March 2010, 19:13
"While others may see him as an opportunistic predator, ready to lay waste to whatever falls under his gaze, Murdoch sees himself as a moralist, the enemy of entrenched, arbitrary power. … Google and the Times may be on opposite ends of the media spectrum, but they share an arrogance about their place in the world. And Murdoch, from the beginning, has found purpose in teaching such institutions hard lessons."
