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Murdoch May Take Journal Online Only

News Corp. could run
a paper without paper, subscriptions

Aug 1, 07 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch’s grab for the Wall Street Journal could mark the demise of hard-copy newspapers and their online subscriptions, Bernhard Warner predicts in Murdoch’s own Times Online. Warner says turning the Journal’s subscription-based website into a free, ad-supported business will be among Murdoch’s... More »

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Internet • newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • News Corp

Tribune Co. Risks Default
on Debt Payments

Advertising slumps and shrinking revenue for media company

Jul 20, 07 8:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Tribune Co. is at risk for missing interest payments on part of the $13-billion debt that will result from the sale to real estate baron Sam Zell, Bloomberg reports. The prediction is based on trading in the company's credit-default swaps; at $77,000 per $10 million in debt, they... More »

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newspaper • advertising • bond trading • buyout

Rivals Team Up on 11th-Hour Dow Offer

Greenspan, Burkle hatch partial buyout option for WSJ owner

Jul 11, 07 5:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle and former MySpace CEO Brad Greenspan may join forces to make at least a partial bid for the Wall Street Journal's parent company, say sources close to the discussions. The pair met yesterday with members of the Dow Jones board to craft an alternative to Rupert... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Ron Burkle • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • Bancroft family • Brad Greenspan • News Corp

Page Six Fallout May Hurt Murdoch

The Wall Street Journal doesn't have
a gossip column, and that's no accident

May 21, 07 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shenanigans at the New York Post may mean trouble for Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones bid, David Carr writes in today's Times. The tales of sex, lies, and bribery spicing up Page Six are normal fare for the gossip standby, but the fact that they're about the Post itself may... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • news • Page Six • New York Post • business

Rupert Woos Bancrofts

Letter promises seat
on News Corp. board, editorial independence for Journal

May 14, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch doesn't want to shake things up at Dow Jones—or so he implied in a weekend missive wooing the Bancroft family. In the folksy, flattering letter, Murdoch called himself "first and foremost" a "newspaper man," and promised to appoint an independent editorial board for the... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • Bancroft family • News Corp

(Newser) - The looming Murdochization of the Wall Street Journal highlights what people should have realized long ago, writes Gary Weiss: just how disastrous public ownership is to the newspaper business. Every time that investors' bottom lines are matched against journalistic integrity, journalism gets tramped. "The only solution," he says,... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • journalism • privatization • pubic ownership • newspaper industry

News Outlets Bid Up Search Word Prices

"Virgina Tech Shooting" peaked at $5  before dropping to six cents

Apr 30, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Online news outlets, usually the ones selling sponsored links to advertisers, are also buying them, to compete for traffic, especially during major news events like the Virginia Tech massacre. From CNN to Fox to the New York Times, news organizations are bidding on Internet keywords at auction from search engines,... More »

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Internet • newspaper • advertising • online advertising • Washington Post • keywords • CNN • Fox • Iraq war

The CEO of The Post Defends The Times in The Journal

Families that Stick Together Stay Together

Apr 23, 07 8:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Graham is the CEO of the Washington Post Company. He is the scion of the Graham family, which controls the Post through a dual stock structure. He explains that a dual stock structure allows a founding family or a subsequent private purchaser to use a class of public stock... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • Donald Graham • Bancroft family • stock • Sulzberger family

Geffen, Zell
Talk Deal
For LA Times

Geffen wants it; Zell has $13 billion in debt to pay down

Apr 5, 07 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Geffen wants to get his hands on the LA Times, and he's optimistic that he may yet succeed after talking to Sam Zell, the feisty real estate mogul who bought the Tribune Company Monday. The two discussed both a spin-off and a joint venture partnership, sources close to the... More »

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media • David Geffen • newspaper • Sam Zell • Chicago • Tribune Company • Eli Broad • Ron Burkle • news • Los Angeles • Los Angeles Times

Tribune Saddled With Daunting Debt

New owner must repay $12 billion
with declining revenues

Apr 4, 07 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sam Zell 's bid for the Tribune Co. beat back his well-heeled rivals, but it saddled an already struggling enterprise with over $12 billion in debt. Now the Wall Street Journal wonders how he expects to pay it back. The likely annual interest fees alone will reach $1 billion, only... More »

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Internet • newspaper • Sam Zell • Chicago • news • business

Tribune Sold
To Zell

Real estate magnate will take it private; Cubs for sale

Apr 2, 07 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chicago real estate magnate Sam Zell won a last-minute bidding  war to buy the Tribune Compay with a $34-a-share offer, reports the Chicago Tribune. Zell will take the media conglomerate private in a deal that includes an employee stock ownership plan. The Cubs will be sold separately. More »

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media • newspaper • Chicago Cubs • Sam Zell • Chicago • Tribune Company • Eli Broad • Ron Burkle

Playwright Finds Times Arrogant on Al Gore

Do we have to read about the VP's weight in every dispatch?

Mar 26, 07 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al Gore is having an astonishing political second act, leading the charge to save the planet, but the supercilious writers at the New York Times can't resist condescending to him, observes playwright Jon Robin Baitz,  doing a little reverse reviewing in his blog. TheTimes, he argues, displays its "... More »

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climate change • environment • media • newspaper • Al Gore • New York Times • Jon Robin Baitz • media criticism • politics

News Wars

PBS takes on the future of news

Mar 19, 07 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - From “infosnacking” to “hyperlocal” news, there is a whole new terminology describing the evolution of news, particularly the move to online news.  The PBS show Frontline has developed a four-part series that examines the ‘News Wars’ taking place all around us.  More »

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television • media • radio • Internet • newspaper • news • Frontline • news distribution • online news • journalism

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