News Corp.'s decision to make its TV shows available for 99-cent rental to Apple TV users is just the latest chapter in an increasingly cozy relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs.
It's unseemly when one of the nation's biggest news outlets drops a wad of cash on one political party. But when you get down to it, News Corp.'s donation to the Republican Governors Association is no worse than business as usual.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google, the Internet search giant that's recently lost share in the search business, is developing a potential competitor to Facebook, the social-networking behemoth with half a billion members.
"I don't do predictions," said Arianna Huffington at a panel discussion Tuesday, although she actually does, quite enthusiastically. But perhaps she shouldn't, given her difficulty sticking to the facts of the present.
The Wall Street Journal will continue its transformation from a business newspaper to a general-interest read with the addition of a new lifestyle section starting this fall.
The author came by DailyFinance's offices to talk about what it was like having a ringside seat to Rupert Murdoch's intrigues, why she thinks the Bancroft family would have sold Dow Jones for even less than Murdoch paid, and whether he is forcing his political views into the news pages.
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch says launching a new 16-page metro section in The Wall Street Journal cost $1 million at most, not the $15 million or more that has been reported. Did he quote a believable sum?
Only one of the 25 largest U.S. newspapers increased its circulation in the last six months: The Wall Street Journal. USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times were all down significantly. The
Verbal bullets were flying Monday at a launch event for the Journal's New York City metro section. Managing Editor Robert Thomson accused the Times of alienating readers with biased reporting and risking its reputation by outsourcing some news gathering.
A visual joke by The Wall Street Journal at the expense of New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger has resulted in lasting bad feelings between the two papers -- and in accusations that Robert Thomson, the Journal's editor, isn't above bending the truth to avoid confrontation.
How did The Wall Street Journal go from losing $80 million one year to earning a profit in the next, in the midst of the worst climate the newspaper industry has ever faced? They're not saying, but we can speculate.
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch today officially acknowledged that The Wall Street Journal will launch a widely expected metro section covering New York -- because, he implied, the Journal's archrival The New York Times is no longer covering it.
