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Times editor (UK) gives details on paid content plans

James Harding, the editor of The Times, has revealed a few details about the paper's plan to charge for content as part of Rupert Murdoch's pay wall ambitions. According to MediaGuardian and Press Gazette , Harding told the Society of Editors...

Posted Nov 17 2009, 12:36 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, The Sunday Times, The Times, paid content, pay walls

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Paid content and closing TheLondonPaper

No one thing killed TheLondonPaper, but one of my first thoughts on hearing the sad news that TheLondonPaper was to close was is this part of Rupert Murdoch's paid content strategy? The facts are pretty simple: London is the most competitive newspaper...

Posted Aug 20 2009, 03:05 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: London Lite, News Corporation, thelondonpaper, paid content

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MySpace goes into rapid retreat/embraces its future

There's carnage at MySpace. Almost 800 jobs cut within a week and the closed sign is being hung up around the world. It looks like today we are seeing the social media map being reshaped. Last week MySpace laid off 420 staff in its US offices. Today...

Posted Jun 23 2009, 11:51 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Facebook, Myspace, News Corporation, Twitter, LinkedIn

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The BBC and Digital Britain failure

Of course, internet access for all is really super. Hurrah. But the failure and misjudgement by Digital Britain on other big questions leave me totally underwhelmed. There's no progress on a Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide deal and the easy option of...

Posted Jun 17 2009, 12:23 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 13 comment(s)

Filed under: BBC, ITV, News Corporation, Conservatives, Digital Britain, ITN, Bertelsmann

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Amazon talking to Twitter? Really it should be buying Digg

There is speculation on Valley Wag about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos being in talks with Twitter. He's already an investor, but is Amazon looking to a future that might include buying into the real time web? The Gawker Media blog says it has heard whispers...

Posted Mar 26 2009, 09:32 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, News Corporation, Twitter, Amazon, Kindle, digg, currentTV, paid content

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Positive story about the future of newspapers

Rupert Murdoch has been putting the doomsayers of the newspaper industry in their place. The future he says is still bright, but it is in case you were in any doubt by now definitely online. In a speech he has knocked the doomsayers who are predicting...

Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:28 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, US media, Philadelphia Inquirer, down turn, The Christian Science Monitor

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News of the World – an apology (not mine)

Hello is that Kate McCann? News of the World here, well you know that story we published with your full permission? Well turns out that we didn't have it after all, I know how does that happen? Better ask the New of the World, which has had to apologise...

Posted Sep 22 2008, 10:59 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: News Corporation, The Sun, Kate McCann, News of the World

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Vote, vote vote for Kelvin MacKenzie

Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie is "90 per cent certain" to put his name forward" and run against Conservative MP and egomaniac David Davis. I really hope he does. MacKenzie said yesterday that: "I have been associated with The...

Posted Jun 14 2008, 11:38 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Big Brother, bomb scare, Labour, News Corporation, News International, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun, Conservatives

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FT fiddles/stuff burns

Executives at FT.com knew they would have to do something when Rupert Murdoch talked of ending the subscription model at the Wall Street Journal Online and now they have, but have they fudged it? Murdoch talking of ending online charges at the WSJ.com...

Posted Oct 01 2007, 09:15 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: News Corporation, The New York Times

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Murdoch summit looks at problem of news in a digital age

Rupert Murdoch has called a summit at his California ranch next week to look at how to turn news gathering, in the digital age, from a stagnant area into a growth division once again. According to a report in the Financial Times, it is the most in-depth...

Posted Apr 25 2007, 03:21 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, social media, The Sun, The Times

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Paid content and closing TheLondonPaper

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MySpace goes into rapid retreat/embraces its future

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The BBC and Digital Britain failure

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Amazon talking to Twitter? Really it should be buying Digg

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Positive story about the future of newspapers

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News of the World – an apology (not mine)

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Vote, vote vote for Kelvin MacKenzie

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