Media heavyweights spar over charging for news online

2010-03-12T10:16:29Z

<div><p>With The New York Times and Rupert Murdoch poised to start charging for newspapers online, media heavyweights sparred on Thursday over whether readers will pay for news on the Web.</p><p>The Times plans to require payment for full access to NYTimes.com in early 2011 and Murdoch, who already charges for Reuters Life!) - A Taiwanese vegetable seller and the mother of media mogul Rupert Murdoch are among the most generous souls in the Asia Pacific, according to a list of philanthropist "heroes" in the region.</p><p>The list, compiled by magazine

Murdoch doubts N.Y. Times Slim sale speculation

2010-03-02T14:17:08Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday he didn't believe speculation that New York Times Co would be bought by Mexican billionaire

Murdoch challenging NY Times, launching NY edition of WSJ

2010-03-02T14:16:43Z

<div><p>News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to The New York Times on Tuesday, announcing plans to launch a New York edition of T...

WSJ's New York section to launch in April

2010-03-02T12:18:57Z

<div id="subtitle">WSJ's New York section to launch in April; Murdoch swipes at `certain other New York daily'</div><div><p>News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that The Wall Street Journal will launch its...

MySpace Music experiments with audio ads

2010-02-22T10:44:05Z

<div id="subtitle">MySpace Music tests out audio ads to stem falling search, ad revenue at MySpace</div><div><p>Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.</p><p>The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist pr...

Murdoch says Fox, Conan have had "conversations"

2010-02-22T12:25:50Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox is exploring its late-night options, but hasn't started any "real" negotiations with Conan O'Brien yet as the network explores whether it could bring the former host of News Corp. turns 2nd-quarter profit of $254 million, helped by improving advertising trends</div><div><p>News Corp., whose 20th Century Fox movie studio is still riding the tail wind of "Avatar" in movie theaters, said Tuesday it earned $254 m...

Next threat to Amazon's $9.99 books? Rupert Murdoch

2010-02-22T12:29:42Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you can -- for they soon may be a thing of the past.</p><p>News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch, who oversees a media empire than includes HarperCollins books, home to au...

News Corp profit up on ad recovery, Avatar

2010-02-22T12:34:07Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's results beat expectations thanks to "Avatar" and improved advertising sales, and the company raised its outlook and dividend in a sign of confidence for the battered media sector.</p><p>The 25 percent dividend increase announced on Tuesday by ...

Nearly half of Google News users just read headlines: report

2010-02-22T17:58:25Z

<div><p>Nearly half of the users of Google News skim the headlines at the news aggregator site without clicking through to newspaper websites, according to a survey released on Tuesday.</p><p>The findings by Outsell Inc. appear likely to provide further ammunition to publishers such as Prince Alwaleed eyes expanding alliance with Murdoch's News Corp.</div><div><p>The Saudi billionaire whose investment firm is one of the biggest stakeholders in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sa...

Newsday Murdoch

2010-01-11T00:16:07Z

-- FILE -- In this May 8, 2008 file photo, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch attends Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World Gala in in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

Free Broadcasters in Peril

2009-12-28T21:15:58Z

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2009 file photo, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, USA, Rupert Murdoch speaks during a media conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Good programing is expensive,...

MANY HAPPIER RETURNS

2010-02-23T11:24:19Z

<div><h1>MANY HAPPIER RETURNS </h1><p>2009? No valentine-- </p><p>The landscape looks like District 9, </p><p>Though corporate corpses line the lawns </p><p>Instead of otherworldly prawns. </p><p>Among the living, those once strong </p><p>Now huff and puff and wheeze along, </p>&lt...

Murdoch sees better 2010 for News Corp: report

2010-02-23T11:41:49Z

<div><p>MILAN (Reuters) - News Corp &lt;NWSA.O&gt; would do better in 2010 than the previous year thanks to the strong performance of its cable and film businesses, the international media group's head Rupert Murdoch told an Italian newspaper.</p><p>"In 2009 we had a $3.5 billion operating profit, we ...

5 top publishers plan rival to Kindle format

2010-02-23T19:08:30Z

<div id="subtitle">5 top publishers team up to form digital newsstand venture for 2010, to rival Amazon's Kindle</div><div><p>Five of the nation's largest publishers of newspapers and magazines are teaming up to challenge Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle electronic-book reader with their own technology that would display in color ...

Google teams up with NY Times, Wash Post on 'Living Stories'

2010-02-23T18:51:43Z

<div><p>Google, The Washington Post and The New York Times unveiled an experiment in online presentation of news on Tuesday called "Living Stories," described as a more dynamic way of reading news on the Web.</p><p>"The ...

MURDOCH VS. GOOGLE

2010-02-23T21:01:56Z

<div><h1>MURDOCH VS. GOOGLE </h1><p>In a bid to loosen Google's dominance over online news, News Corp. () Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is talking with Microsoft about making hi...

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