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WSJ Could Ditch Google For $15 Million From Microsoft, Analysis Shows

businessinsider.com | Jay Yarow|Nov. 24, 2009, 7:36 AM |10 | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media

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If we estimate that the Journal's online ad revenue is $100 million, using the New York Times as a rough benchmark, then the site would only lose $10 ...

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Rupert Murdoch Plans To Block More Than Just Google

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy

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Matthew Filipowicz

In an exclusive interview, Rupert Murdoch explains that Google is only the beginning of News Corp.'s plans to further isolate themselves. Take a look.

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Murdoch: Mobile Phone Fees For WSJ Coming

AP | Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology

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NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal plans to start charging as much as $2 a week to read its stories on BlackBerrys, iPhones and other mobile dev...

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The Economist Eats the WSJ's Lunch

Charles Warner | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

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Charles Warner

The Economist makes a lot of money and the WSJ loses a lot of money, even though they both have a freemium business model for their Web offering. Why?

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Could Murdoch's Love of Gossip Doom His Family?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

Gossip, for Murdoch, is partly business intelligence, but Murdoch also likes to know who is sleeping with whom. It is a prurient interest, but it is also leverage.

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Wall Street Journal Plans NY Culture Section In Bid To Compete With Times

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York

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Eighteen months ago, at the Marriott Hotel on West Street in the Financial District, Rupert Murdoch had his first meeting as owner of The Wall Street ...

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Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

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BlackAndBrownNews

With News Corp's purchase of neighborhood publications like the Brooklyn Paper, all that annoying journalism that challenges pesky things like protecting citizens from eminent domain is all but lost.

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Mr. Murdoch, Tear Down that Page

Art Brodsky | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media

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Art Brodsky

Fox is done, but Murdoch isn't. He has that one little company for which he paid $5 billion a couple of years ago that happens to publish a daily newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.

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Does Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Have A Problem With Women?

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 08.13.2008 | Media

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There's hardly a newsroom in America whose female denizens haven't at at some point described it -- usually with some fairness -- as a boys' club. But...

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Wall Street Journal Raises Cover Price Again

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

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Rupert Murdoch must think highly of the changes he's made to The Wall Street Journal: He expects readers to pay one-third more for it. Starting on Ju...

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Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens' Religion of Denial

Kevin Grandia | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media

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Kevin Grandia

While NASA did correct their temperature records for the U.S., what scientists are talking about and concerned about is global warming and not United States warming.

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Wall Street Journal Online Sees Traffic Explosion, Uniques Up 94% Over Last Year Despite Paywall

MediaWeek | Mike Shields | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

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The Wall Street Journal's Web site has enjoyed significant traffic growth of late, while still managing to keep its vaunted--and some predicted, doome...

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Another Small Pleasure

Jan Herman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

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Jan Herman

Long before Murdoch took over The WSJ, it had an enviable tradition of reporting factual news in a "storytelling" format, which its reporters were trained to do better than most.

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Meet Mr. Gasbag, WSJ-style vs. NYT-style

Jan Herman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Media

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Jan Herman

Here two excerpts, from the Times and Journal. Both show McCain for what he really is -- a pandering gasbag. But one story does it better than the other. You be the judge.

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Wall Street Journal Shake-Up: Paper Makes Major Changes To Editorial Team

Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

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Robert Thomson, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, announced a new editorial leadership structure on Thursday that he claims will "expedite d...

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Crystal Balls

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

It is egregious, and flat out unacceptable for Mr. Murdoch to tilt the direction of his editorial board in any presidential candidate's favor -- whether it be John McCain or Barack Obama.

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Rupert Murdoch Moves Cartoon Off WSJ Editorial Page

New York Times | Cate Doty | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media

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Amidst a sea of changes at Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, here's a shift that might catch the eye of only a devoted editorial reader: "Pepper ....

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The Media Shopoholic Strikes Again

Marvin Kitman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

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Marvin Kitman

Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.

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Rupert Murdoch Vs. FCC In Battle To Control New York Media — And Wage War Against The New York Times

Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

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Several stories this morning highlight Rupert Murdoch's battle to control New York media — first by ousting the editor of the Wall Street Journa...

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WSJ Redesign: More Politics, More Opinion, More Liberals

Portfolio.com | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Stealth attack! While we've been on high alert for changes to The Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section, Rupert Murdoch has gone and revamped sect...

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Wall Street Journal May Endorse For President

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

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When Rupert Murdoch spoke yesterday at Georgetown, he indicated that a long-standing Wall Street Journal tradition could be changed in 2008: The paper...

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Wall Street Journal To Be Sold In London

Wall Street Journal | Donna Kardos | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media

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Rupert Murdoch has a shiny new toy, and he wants to show it off to his friends in Old Blighty. Beginning April 16, The Wall Street Journal's U.S. edit...

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Wall Street Journal Ramps Up Political Coverage

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK -- The Federal Reserve's effort to rescue Bear Stearns from imminent collapse was a classic Wall Street Journal story, stripped across the to...

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Murdoch To WSJ Staffers: I Have No "Conservative" Agenda

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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In his first visit to the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau, Rupert Murdoch told staffers Friday that he would put more resources into Washington cove...

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Murdoch's Next WSJ Addition: Culture Section In The Works

WWD | Irin Carmon | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Media observers already are noticing the changes in a Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal -- a British editor for the glossy magazine launch, tal...

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