Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts

Monday, April 26, 2010

WSJ Launches New York Section

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Early Times? Late Times? What Times?

For generations, newspapers have tried to cut the time between printing and delivery, giving readers the latest news — especially on big stories that often land on the front page. The Los Angeles Times is about to take a big step in the other direction. [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

How Much Will You Pay To Read News Online?

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Monday, May 11, 2009

News Corp. Plans Micro Payments for WSJ Website

News Corp is planning to introduce "micro payments" for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson said on Sunday. [Click for MORE]
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Charlie Rose: Future of Newspapers


Discussion with Walter Isaacson of Time, Mort Zuckerman of the New York Daily News and Robert Thomson of the Wall Street Journal. Sphere: Related Content

Monday, April 28, 2008

Murdoch’s ‘Head of Content’

In a long career, Robert Thomson has left a trail of happy reporters in his wake — at The Financial Times and more recently at The Times of London, where the newsroom under his guidance was, in the words of a former colleague, “the happiest place to work on Fleet Street.”

He’s got his work cut out for him at The Wall Street Journal. [Click for MORE] Sphere: Related Content

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Sad Day for Journalism
if Murdoch Swallows Newsday


By Ruth Hochberger
Columnist, Huffington Post

Be afraid... be very afraid.

Remember Charles Foster Kane? The fictional newspaper publisher/editor in Citizen Kane who ran his publications on whim, punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends?

Lost in the flurry of the Pennsylvania primary and who's more elite than whom, the visit to America by the Pope, and $120-a-barrel crude oil was a story that should bring a tear to the eye of any journalist worth his salt, or any lover of independent journalism in this country.

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, owner of British tabloids, the Star supermarket tabloid, Sky Television, the Fox Network, the New York Post, and, most recently, Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, appears ready to gobble up Long Island's Newsday.

Newsday, founded by Alicia Patterson in 1940 and part of the ill-fated Tribune Company stable, is a jewel among suburban newspapers. Winner of 19 Pulitzer Prizes and countless other journalistic awards, it is probably a blessing that Bob Greene, the renowned Newsday investigative reporter, who assembled and ran an investigative team that became a model for such endeavors at countless other papers and led the paper to two public service Pulitzers, died two weeks ago. [Click for MORE]

> Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em at Tribune

> Tribune Co. sells Connecticut real estate for $30 million

> Tribune Co. ready to 'relaunch' WGN

> Analyst: What is Murdoch's long-term newspaper strategy?

> LAT business editor Maharaj promoted to managing editor

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Murdoch, Ink.


With a redesigned Wall Street Journal, mogul Rupert Murdoch is launching an old-fashioned newspaper war against The New York Times. Not since William Randolph Hearst took on Joseph Pulitzer have we seen such a fight. [Click for MORE]

> Wall Street Journal Editor Expected to Resign
> WSJ Managing Editor to Leave Post Sphere: Related Content