Category Archives: Dow Jones

FT.com: News Corp looks at unit for tablet devices

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"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."

CJR: What it’s Like to Be The Wall Street Journal’s Friend

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"Several news organizations have started their own Foursquare accounts in order to push their online content to users based on their physical location. ... Having your Foursquare-augmented-reality experience curated by a brand you know and trust might not be so bad. There’s a lot of noise out there; if I’m using Foursquare to augment my reality anyway, maybe I would like to have my pop-ups limited to the things I actually care about. Like, say, information about interesting historical buildings, or a feed of recent news stories linked to the physical locations where they happened."

New York Magazine: A Look Inside the Life of News Corp. Mogul and Raging Septuagenarian Rupert Murdoch

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"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."

PBS MediaShift: How WSJ Uses Social Media from Behind a Pay Wall

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"Though it can't promote and share the content created and then locked down on its website, the paper has worked to incorporate social media. Last year, [WSJ deputy managing editor Alan Murray] interviewed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a 'Digg Dialogg.' Geithner answered questions submitted and voted on by Digg users. "

bit.ly blog: Announcing bit.ly Pro

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"The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. ... Users and publishers benefit from the additional transparency that this private-label service provides. When you see a short URL like nyti.ms, you know the destination web site before clicking on the link. "

John Battelle’s Searchblog: What Are The Conversion Rates for Google’s “First Click Free”?

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"I'd guess it's a pretty low percentage of folks who actively try to get the Wall Street Journal by repeatedly searching on Google. The really interesting question is this: Does 'First Click Free' actually deliver a decent conversion of paid customers to media companies?"

paidContent: Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast

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"Here’s how Murdoch replied when [Sky News political editor David Speers] asked why he hasn’t blocked sites from being seen by search engines: 'I think we will. But that’s when we start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall, but it’s not right to the ceiling.' ... He also raised the idea of challenging the doctrine of 'fair use' in court, then reigned it in a bit. “We’re getting a lot of advertising revenue so we’ll take that slowly.'"

Daggle.com: Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content

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Robert Thomson doesn't like promiscuity of readers who get their news online, and blames Google: "the whole Google model is based on digital disloyalty. It’s about disloyalty to creators." Danny Sullivan responds...

Vanity Fair: Rupert to Internet: It’s War!

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"I have—in nine months of conversation with Murdoch, writing his biography after he bought the Journal, in 2007— often argued the nature of Internet culture with him to little avail. Murdoch can almost single-handedly take apart and re-assemble a complex printing press, but his digital-technology acumen and interest is practically zero. Murdoch’s abiding love of newspapers has turned into a personal antipathy to the Internet: for him it’s a place for porn, thievery, and hackers."