In the short time during whichThe Leveson Inquiry in Britain has been investigating the practice of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News International employees, the revelations have been as shocking as the resignations have been numerous. Unscrupulous editors, crooked reporters, bribe-accepting policemen, corrupt government officials, the head of Scotland Yard, the News of the World itself:… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning: » News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) said to plan U.S. sports network to rival ESPN (NYSE: DIS) (Bloomberg) » Magazines’ digital circulation more than doubles—but remains small (AdAge) » Bertelsmann weighs IPO to finance expansion (NYT/DealBook) » Hey, judges: Facebook isn’t the devil, it’s the new… [Read more…]
March 22, 2012
Associated Press board members — the newspaper CEOs who populate the board — opted for one of their own when they picked McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt as their new leader . By historical measure, it’s a strange move. A large newspaper company CEO is captain of his own ship, at a pinnacle of American company… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
A federal judge in Portland, Oregon has declared that a local “investigative blogger,” doesn’t qualify as a journalist — calling into question whether online hyperlocal news publishers should be treated differently than traditional media. Crystal Cox calls herself an “investigative blogger” and runs sites “exposing corruption.” Obsidian Finance Group filed a $10 million defamation claim… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
By Graeme McMillan | @graemem Finally, all of my fears about the legitimacy of my chosen career have paid off with the news that a federal judge in Portland, Oregon–the very city in which I live!–has ruled that blogging does not, in fact, equal journalism, and that bloggers are not necessarily deserving of the moral… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Which news providers make it in among the top 25 for total U.S. traffic? While the raw figures for visitors vary from one metrics firm to the next (Nielsen’s unique visitors numbers are often much smaller than those of the ratings agency comScore, for example, and both rely mainly on home-based traffic rather than work-based,… [Read more…]
September 20, 2011
Advertising agencies in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico plan to expand their mobile marketing offerings, according to a survey carried out by Nielsen. The general consensus across the three markets was that mobile is a channel that can be better exploited, with 83% of agencies in Brazil, 65% in Argentina and 59% in Mexico stressing its… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
19 September 2011 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel is repositioning its brand with a $10m advertising campaign featuring direct mail, email, social media and banner ads. The Marriott-owned hotel chain has partnered with Los Angeles-based agency Team One in an attempt to reinvent itself. Direct mail and email messages are being distributed, promoting its new tagline… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
The search giant wants to spend $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola Mobility. Here are its ten biggest buys to-date and what exactly happened to them. Price: $133 million Announced: August 2009 FTC Approval: January 2010 On2 Technologies made Theora and VP8, high performance video codecs for online streaming. After the purchase, the Free Software… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
It should come as no surprise that content providers want to make money from YouTube, particularly on smartphones, which are among the hottest-selling gadgets on the planet. What you may find surprising is that once Google figured out a way to make that happen, namely by allowing advertising, viewership skyrocketed.http://ads.cnn.com/html.ng/site=cnn_money&cnn_money_position=220x200_ctr&cnn_money_rollup=technology&cnn_money_section=quigo&page.allowcompete=no¶ms.styles=fs&page.allowcompete=yes&tile=1316486858359&page.allowcompete=yes&domId=53218 Users may hate ads, but… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
News International is expected to pay 3 million pounds ($4.7 million) to settle hacking claims by the family of murder victim Milly Dowler against Britain’s now defunct News of the World newspaper, sources close to the issue told Reuters on Monday. The settlement is likely to involve close to a two million pound payment to… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
Google Inc has enlisted Visa Inc in its effort to push mobile payments, striking an agreement to allow Visa account-holders to pay for store purchases with their smartphones. Visa comes onboard a "Google Wallet" project already supported by Citigroup, MasterCard, Sprint Nextel Corp and First Data. In May, the group announced a trial of a… [Read more…]
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