WSJ.com: Kobo, WSJ Halt Direct Sales on Apple-Device Apps
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 08:47
"News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal, which has been circumventing Apple's payment system by providing links to its website from inside the iPad app, will soon remove all purchasing options in the app in response to Apple's new rules. …
Politico: News Corp. to disclose political donations
Friday, 6 May 2011, 15:49
"[As] of April 12, [News Corp]’s board has 'adopted a new policy to publicy disclose corporate contributions annually on News Corporation’s corporate website.'"
New York Times: Will James Murdoch Ride a Sky Broadcasting Deal to the Top?
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:20
"[Those] who know James Murdoch often note that he does not relish the newspaper culture the way his father does. He seems to take no delight in the company of reporters and in the sort of gossip that permeates the newspaper world and that his fat…
Nieman Journalism Lab: Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve?
Monday, 7 February 2011, 12:35
"While News Corp. may be home to properties like The Wall Street Journal, the design language of The Daily is surprisingly tabloid: big headlines, big pictures, short stories, and a populist feel. The sections — with “Gossip” given a high se…
Waxy.org: The Daily: Indexed
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 18:59
"Anybody else think it's weird that The Daily, News Corp's new iPad-only magazine, posts almost every article to their official website… but with no index of the articles to be found? They spent $30M on it, but apparently forgot a home…
Press Gazette: The Daily launches: ‘We must re-imagine our craft’
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 18:33
"A live demo of The Daily was showed off at today's launch showcasing features including: 360-degree photographs, interactive content and high definition video as well as traditional newspaper staples like horoscopes, weather and crosswords. …
Poynter: The first look at The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s iPad newspaper
Thursday, 13 January 2011, 12:59
A house ad gives some clues about what Murdoch's The Daily will look like: "Aside from the pithy writing style and photo-dominated front page, it is difficult to discern much else about the personality or content of the publication."
The Economist: Bold newspapers: The crucible of print
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:53
"The strategies being pursued by News Corporation, the Daily Mail and General Trust and Lebedev Holdings rest on distinct assumptions about what readers want, what they will pay for, and the future of advertising. It is highly unlikely that all th…
New York Times: An iPad Newspaper From News Corp
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 15:11
How quaint. "The Daily … will be produced into the evening, and then a button will be pushed and it will be 'printed' for the next morning. There will be updates — the number of which is still under discussion — but not at the velocity or with the urgency of a news Web site. … And at a time when the ecosystem of news is driven by links, The Daily will have no inbound links from other sites, and nothing outbound either…"
Beehive City: The Daily: Is an iPad only newspaper really the future of media?
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:34
Tim Glanfield: "even if you do have an iPad, why would you pay for the Daily and restrict yourself to ‘a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence’ Murdoch-style when you can enjoy the myriad news providers of the web via their websites for free (or as part of your cripplingly expensive 3G package) on your tablet."
Beehive City: The Daily: Is an iPad only newspaper really the future of media?
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:34
Tim Glanfield: "even if you do have an iPad, why would you pay for the Daily and restrict yourself to ‘a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence’ Murdoch-style when you can enjoy the myriad news providers of the web via their websites for free (or as part of your cripplingly expensive 3G package) on your tablet."
Virtual Economics: News Corp’s paywall is about News Corp, not the Times
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 11:44
Seamus McCauley has an interesting theory: "The Times paywall … is not about directly monetising the Times but about bundling the Times with News Corp's other services, notably broadband but also TV and telephony, to decrease churn and add customers to the valuable has a very growth part of the business. … With BskyB running an ARPU of £508, if fewer than 30,000 people make the decision to move to (or stay with) Sky because they get the Times online bundled in, News Corp's paywall initiative breaks even. If 200,000 do that's the annual losses of the newspaper operation covered too."
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."
Independent: Rupert Murdoch claims to own the ‘Sky’ in ‘Skype’
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 13:57
"BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with the internet telecommunications pioneer Skype, claiming that it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype'."
