Jeffjarvis. Rupert Murdoch delays plans to charge for online news. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp launches global service to link all its outlets | Media. Sky News: News Corporation's NewsCore internal wire will make its content instantly available to all Murdoch outlets worldwide News Corporation is launching a global service that will make all its news stories and videos instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets.
The service, called NewsCore, will operate like a global wire service for all the company's newspapers, TV networks and websites. News Corp is describing the venture as a "21st-century multi-media information service that will draw on the worldwide news and sports resources within News Corporation and make them available to other News properties everywhere". "When Sky News reports that Gordon Brown has called an election, everyone in the NWS family can run with it. When TG24 learns that Vesuvius has blown its top again, everyone in NewsCorp will have it. NewsCore will be based in New York and is hiring journalists for that city, London and Asia. News Corp declined to comment. 6 Takeaways from 'TechDirt Saves Journalism' Event at Google. What will the journalism landscape look like five to 10 years from now?
The megatrend of unbundled, specialty-focused niche sources of online information likely spells doom for many of today’s lumbering media giants. But opportunities abound for new players, as well as for daring news brands willing to expand their notions of what it means to stay competitive in the age of social media and networked experiences. That was one of the few areas of consensus at a gathering convened at Google headquarters Wednesday night. Some 60 business people, coders, journalists, attorneys and others attended the fancifully named Techdirt Saves Journalism, a powwow whose goal was to spark a few ideas that might prove useful to enterprising newcomers, as well as those who write journalists’ paychecks today.
Six Takeaways Below are six takeaways from the event. 1. 031310 Hal Varian FTC Preso – Revised Among the sobering stats: Only 14 percent of a newspaper’s budget goes to editorial. OK, we knew that. 2. 3. Google Caves to Murdoch, Adds New Options for Publishers. As newspapers and old media companies have seen their revenues shrink, they have essentially done one of two things: found ways to embrace the web or blamed Google for their problems. Now with the heat being turned up on Google by News Corp and Rupert Murdoch, the search giant has decided to appease angry media outlets and give them more control over how their links are treated in Google Search and Google News. Will These Changes Be Enough? There are two changes that Google hopes will quell the discontent of media outlets. The first one is a change to its "First Click Free" program, which allows users to visit an article for free, but directs them to a sign-up page if they browse to another page.
For example, if you visited a Wall Street Journal article from Google News, you'd get the full article for free, but would have to pay for other articles. The problem is that many people now abuse this feature to get all of their WSJ articles for free. How Murdoch Can Really Hurt Google And Shift The Balance Of Power In Search. I’ve mostly been a spectator in this whole Rupert Murdoch de-indexing his news sites from Google circus. First because I didn’t really believe he even knew what he was talking about (or how much traffic he’d lose), and more recently because Erick Schonfeld took the story here at TechCrunch. But suddenly this is a fascinating story to me for a bunch of reasons. This may be less about the self destruction of traditional journalism and more about the search wars. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a video last week (embedded below) with a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it.
TechCrunch Europe’s Mike Butcher has been sniffing down a similar trail. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t. Roy Greenslade: Why Murdoch's digital news cartel will fail | Media. The market research revelation that only 5% of UK web users would pay for online news doesn't surprise me in the least. But I doubt that it will stop Rupert Murdoch in his tracks. According to the survey, by Harris Interactive, if people are confronted by their favourite news site charging for content, then 74% of them will find another free site. That's just as I would expect. I am convinced that paywalls will fail. Say, however, there is no other free site available? By which I mean a site with similar values to the one people currently choose.
In Britain, there will always be the BBC - unless the Murdoch-inspired anti-BBC propaganda forces it to close or to reduce its online service. In the US, there is no equivalent to our public service broadcaster. He may persuade all the leading newspapers and publishing companies - from the New York Times and the Washington Post, for example, to the sites owned by Gannett (such as USA Today) and Tribune - to erect paywalls at the same time.