Category Archives: publishing

Does Rupert Murdoch think he can double or even treble the number of visitors to WSJ.com if when he makes the site free? Don’t be silly. He’s much more ambitious than that: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, … Continue reading →

Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of the WSJ, appeared at the Future of Business Media conference and did a reasonably good job of mumbling noncommitally about Dow Jones’s future within News Corp: he clearly hasn’t yet signed on to the Rupert … Continue reading →

Never mind going free online; if the Financial Times really wants to be taken seriously it will have to do better than the craven display of gutlessness it presented to the world today, in the wake of a September 29 … Continue reading →

Rupert Murdoch does not, yet, officially own Dow Jones. But he clearly controls it, all the same. Today, the day that Rupert’s new business channel launches in head-to-head competition with CNBC, Dow Jones’s websites have decided to pull all CNBC’s … Continue reading →

What on earth are the executives at FT.com thinking? Instead of boldly following the lead of the NYT and making the site free, they’ve arrived at a weird compromise: articles and data will be free to users up to a … Continue reading →

I’m convinced that WSJ.com, FT.com, along with every other newspaper website, will be entirely free sooner rather than later. Jeff Bercovici, on the other hand, isn’t: Are all the triumphalists ready to rule out the possibility that, somewhere down the … Continue reading →

Sarah Ellison of the WSJ has more detail today on whether or not WSJ.com is likely to go free. Although Murdoch himself seems to see what a good idea it is, he is apparently getting pushback from Dow Jones CEO … Continue reading →

It’s all but official: WSJ.com is going free. Rupert Murdoch himself said as much today, at a Goldman Sachs conference in New York: “We don’t mind what platform news appears on. We’re platform neutral: newsprint, your Blackberry, your PC or … Continue reading →

Everybody knows that Google has won the search-engine war. But what’s much more important is that Google has won the search war – and the latest casualty is TimesSelect. The subscriber firewalls at the WSJ and the FT will be … Continue reading →

WSJ.com had 4.5 million unique visitors in
July. That’s less than the LA Times, and less than a third of what nytimes.com
gets. Even a second-tier blog like consumerist.com can boast
over 2 million uniques.
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How can the WSJ make itself more attractive to display advertisers?
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Dan Gross reckons
that Rupert Murdoch paid a "jerk premium" of "somewhere
between $760 million and $1.22 billion" to take over Dow Jones and the
Wall Street Journal. Anybody else, he says, could have bought it for less:
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Amidst the acres of commentary on the Murdoch-Dow Jones acquisition this morning, there’s precious little in the way of news or original analysis. The WSJ is, as it has been all along, ahead of the game, and reports the most … Continue reading →

It’s
finally happened: News Corp has enough Bancroft votes that it’s going to
go ahead with its acquisition of Dow Jones.
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The Monday-at-5pm deadline has come and gone, and the WSJ, of course, has the
best coverage of What On Earth Is Going On with the Bancrofts and Dow Jones.
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Commenter dissent has a heartfelt
and powerful rebuttal to my sanguine view of Rupert Murdoch
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It’s a bit embarrassing, but true, that the 76-year-old Murdoch has a longer time horizon than a public company which will almost certainly exist in some form for many generations yet.
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Rupert Murdoch:
“When the Journal gets its Page 3 girls, we’ll make sure they have MBAs.”
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Michael
Lewis has an interesting but wrong-headed argument today, saying that Rupert
Murdoch is buying a wasting asset in the Wall Street Journal.
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“It’s a very difficult kind thing to actually put in writing,” said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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Murdoch lies to the FT.
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