Factiva Expanding Web Presence in Wall Street Journal Profession. Famed for its achievement in attracting more than 1 million paying subscribers to its paywall, branded product, the Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com; Dow Jones & Co.
(www.dowjones.com) is now launching a premium service at a higher price point. The primary attraction for the new Wall Street Journal Professional Edition lies in its incorporation of Factiva content. The service will integrate content from 17,000 Factiva sources with WSJ.com content to create news flows covering key industries, companies, etc. Users will also be able to search a 1-year archive of Factiva and a 2-year archive of WSJ.com content. The price will run $49 a month or about $600 a year; that will include access to full-text articles for no additional transactional pricing, unlike the $2.95 per article paid under most other Factiva subscriptions. The new service orients itself around specific industries, letting users customize their news feeds and alerts, as well as stay on top of breaking news. Murdoch: Future of newspapers in online payment, fed. Media titan Rupert Murdoch believes the government should stay out of the way of the news industry as scores of newspapers around the nation shutter or slash staff.
Instead, the federal government needs to update arcane regulations such as a media cross-ownership ban that appies to a pre-digital era, he said. And news organizations need to keep aggregators such as Google from disseminating news for free on the backs of newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, he said. Those were some of the opinions voiced by Murdoch this morning at a workshop on the future of newspapers by the Federal Trade Commission. The Real King of Britain. Rupert Murdoch's first royal visit to the UK The problem with monarchs is we don't get to elect them and changing them can be quite a bloody business.
I do think that as a majority in the UK would keep the monarchy, a compromise with republican sentiments would be to elect a monarch with some sort of recall if the enough signed a petition. NSFW: 1200 words absolutely, definitely not about Rupert Murdoch. One of the most tiresome group of people you encounter when you write a weekly column is the “suggesters”.
Throughout the week, my inbox receives a steady flow of emails; from friends, from colleagues, but mostly from total strangers – all containing useful links to stories they “assume I’ve seen”. And always with the same suggestion: “you should write about this in your column!”. Worse than the suggesters are the “trusters”. James Murdoch sees smaller role for newspapers. Rupert has balls. Tweet: Rupert has balls.
Well, he used to. That’s the essence of Murdoch: balls. It’s the essence of the culture of News Corp., which I learned from working there (at TV Guide): Australian macho seat-of-the-pants instant decision making. That is the secret to Murdoch’s success. It is also the secret to his failure: Sometimes his balls land on red, sometimes on black. Rupert Murdoch's threat unlikely to worry Google. Rupert Murdoch has threatened to remove News Corp content from Google's search index.
Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters The threat to exclude Google from News International websites won't have caused much lost sleep over in the search engine's headquarters in Mountain View in California. Sergey Brin and Larry Page have declared before that if news organisations don't like Google indexing their content, then it only takes two lines of computer code added to a file called "robots.txt", which every website uses to tell search engines where, or not, to wander.
The key lines are "User-agent: *" (meaning "whoever you are") and "Disallow: /" (meaning "you're not allowed to go anywhere in here"). Do that, and the site will vanish from Google's index – both for Google News and the more general search index. Instead it is Murdoch, who wants to be the ticket-seller, who is troubled. News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoc. Lex / Technology, media & telecoms - Media recovery. Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch.
In one of my favorite Murdoch stories, his wife, Wendi, who had befriended the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, told me about how the “boys” had visited the Murdochs at their ranch in Carmel, California.
When I marveled at this relative social mismatch and asked what they might have talked about, Wendi assured me that they had all gotten along very well. “You know, Rupert,” Wendi said, “he’s always asking questions.” “But what,” I prodded, “did he exactly ask?” “He asked,” she said, hesitating only a beat before cracking herself up, “‘Why don’t you read newspapers?’” Murdoch’s son-in-law Matthew Freud—married to Elisabeth Murdoch, and one of the most well-known P.R. men in the U.K.
Look Who's Online Now - October 31, 2005. It took a while, but Rupert Murdoch has a case of Internet fever.
A real-time portrait of a legendary mogul remaking his media colossus. (FORTUNE Magazine) – WE CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN WHICH of his many tribulations was on Rupert Murdoch's mind when he convened his lieutenants for a September offsite in Carmel, Calif. Why Murdoch Really Bought MySpace?