James Murdoch has passed his father Rupert in the MediaGuardian 100. As the chief executive at this father’s News Corporation Europe and Asia, James has firmly established himself amongst Press and Publishings Top 10.
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Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, purchased his 142-year-old local newspaper, The Putnam County News and Recorder last month. While Fox News has no immediate plans to change the newspaper or increase its circulation beyond the 3,000 it is at now, they may be looking to “evolve it over time.” NY Times
The July 21st cover of The New Yorker, entitled “Politics of Fear,” is facing heavy criticism due to a caricature of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife. The cover depicts Obama in radical Islamic clothing, his wife Michelle with a machine gun, an American flag burning in a fireplace, and a framed picture [...]
Guardian News & Media has bought ContentNext, the parent company of the digital business website PaidContent, as part of its US expansion. ContentNext was founded in April 2002 and has since expanded to 23 staff and taken investment from the venture capital firm Greycroft Partners. The founder of ContextNext, Rafat Ali, said, “The Guardian’s international [...]
Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist and writer of the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, made his final blog entry on Wednesday. Lyons stated that he had grown tired of his fictional creation, but more importantly did not want to be making fun of a real person whose health is in jeopardy. [...]
The Chicago Tribune informed its staff yesterday that it will be eliminating around 80 of its current 578 newsroom positions by the end of August, as well as reducing the number of pages it publishes by 13 or 14 percent each week. The paper is also planning to redesign the look of its paper, with [...]
Marcus W. Brauchli has officially been named executive editor of The Washington Post and will begin his responsibilities on September 8. Publisher Katharine Weymouth hopes that Brauchli’s experience as top editor of The Wall Street Journal will help The Post “navigate the new world of media.” NY Times (July 8, 2008)
Readex a division of NewsBank Inc. and the Center for Research Libraries, announced that they are in the process of creating the world’s largest, fully searchable digital archive of international newspapers. The goal of The World Newspaper Archive is to give users unprecedented access to historical newspapers published outside the U.S. NewsBreak (July 7, 2008)
WSJ.com has enjoyed a 94% increase in online traffic compared to June 2007, according to the company’s internal traffic numbers. The site had 16.2 million unique users this June, with total page views up 45% to 150 million. MediaWeek (June 2, 2008)
According to the paper’s editor, The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and online news departments. This is a reaction to the industrywide ad sales slump that has been fueled by a weak real estate market. The LA Times plans to restructure the paper cutting pages by [...]