Tag Archives: Murdoch

Link wrap: Paywall for The Australian, Pulitzer prizes, new editor for NY Times, FT favours web apps

By Julie Starr | Published: June 8, 2011
A handful of news links from the past few days. Murdoch to hide The Australian behind paywall NZ HERALD | AP Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd said it would start charging for online access to national broadsheet The Australian from October, although some content will remain free. The newspaper’s paywall will be modelled on the media [...]
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Link wrap: What people are saying about a NewsCorp iDaily for iPad

By Julie Starr | Published: November 29, 2010
Much talk in the past week or so about NewsCorp launching an iPad news app called the Daily. There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of clear sources for the story, so I can tell you that it may or may not be iPad-only, may launch next month or next year, may or [...]
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Links: reaction to Times paywall results

By Julie Starr | Published: November 5, 2010
There’s been a lot of discussion this week about the first official numbers for the Times paywall: The News Corporation said on Tuesday that it had gained 105,000 paying customers for the digital versions of The Times and The Sunday Times of London since it started charging for access to their Web sites this summer. The [...]
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Links: Bye bye Alesia, hello Ushi.cn

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2010
A few more links today before I shut down a few more browser tabs: News Corp gives up on digital aggregator project Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has abandoned its eagerly awaited online news aggregation platform, code-named ‘Project Alesia’, just weeks before it was due to launch. The UK-based project was to aggregate content from British [...]
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Links: FT app, Reuters video, online ad growth

By Julie Starr | Published: October 13, 2010
This is an absolute grab-bag of a few things I’ve read in recent weeks. I tend to tweet links to what I’m reading these days rather than blog them, but I found a few links languishing here in an unpublished post and thought I may as well top them up and hit Publish. Financial Times [...]
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