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“Where we’ve found inspiration is Internet retail, not publishing,” he told me last week. “We’re becoming a direct Internet retailer and we have to have expertise to do that. When you do that with publishing, it looks like a different business.”
Why it's a big story: 1) The size of the gift. $1 million.
2) The size of Rupert Murdoch's presence in the news world.
3) The size of Fox News in the political news landscape.
4) The size of Murdoch's influence at the Wall Street Journal.
Marketplace reporter Eve Troeh and Poynter's Kelly McBride do a good job of connecting the dots: the power of scarcity as a few big old media brands connect with new media leaked files to create huge impact.
Most significantly, I think, is the passion you can hear from those practicing the new, non-profit journalism. Freed from the visegrip of industry worry, they are doing the journalism, and you can hear the optimism in their voices. My issue here ...
We could say that news companies -- from Slate to the Journal and Times -- have figured out that playing the ad game by someone else's rules didn't make a lot of sense. In the game of gross numbers, they couldn't win.
Are there any positive growth numbers to report? Which categories may be turning positive — maybe national or retail display ads — as the sagging economy continues to plague the traditional classified strengths of auto, recruitment, and real estate?
Thinking about the recent terminations at the Washington Post and CNN, though, I wonder if the press priesthood is still another cultural institution in the process of being swept away, encumbered as much as it has by habit as by principle.
The FT made a significant break from traditional practice by reclaiming control of its licensing activities. At that point, it said that building and growing direct customer relationships, rather than indirectly licensing via aggregators, was a ...
We can look at each of the major revolutions in digital news and commerce, and see how news companies responded.
Search. Late.
Paid search. Way too late.
Video. Late.
Social. Too late.
Mobile. Largely too late.
News companies have used old ...
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