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NEWS ABOUT: Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff stories: 16 news summaries
Simon Dumenco

When News Is for the Rich, Newser Is
Robin Hood...

...and founder Michael Wolff is in jail

Nov 2, 09 9:46 AM CST
(Newser) - The year is 2012, and Michael Wolff is in prison. He’s the first high-profile conviction under 2011’s anti-aggregation law, the draconian act that’s allowed newspapers to duck behind ever-pricier paywalls. These days, a New York Times subscription will run you $7,000, and “the cultural divide... More »

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media • news • Michael Wolff • aggregator • Simon Dumenco • paywall • Newser

GLOSSIES

 The Washington Post Is 
 Odds-On Fave to Survive 

Newspaper trimmed staff, and it's paid off: Wolff

Sep 4, 09 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like America's other newspapers, the Washington Post is in pain, operating $86 million in the red after axing 400 reporters. “And yet,” Newser founder Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair, “if you had to look for a circumstance out of which a newspaper might have the... More »

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New York Times • Washington Post • business models • Michael Wolff • newspaper industry • Kaplan • Katharine Weymouth • Don Graham

cuban to wolff:

 I'm Fat, but No Idiot: 
 Consumers Will Pay for News 


Aug 13, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Media maverick (and Mavericks owner) Mark Cuban mixes it up with Newser's Michael Wolff, laying out his argument that consumers should and will pay for online content if it's packaged in a new way. Allowing as how he's fat, but hardly an idiot (as per Wolff's column yesterday, see link... More »

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Mark Cuban • online newspapers • News Corp • Michael Wolff • paywall

(Newser) - Besieged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “a national joke,” Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He’s also immensely popular. In the midst of his most recent sex scandal, he and his party were handily reelected. What’s the deal? To begin with, “he controls... More »

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politics • sex scandal • Italy • corruption • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • Michael Wolff • Veronica Berlusconi

Analysis

Politico's Obsessive Focus Is Future of News

It's all politics, all the time, and it works

Jul 1, 09 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you want to see the future of news—and how it will be delivered—look no further than Politico as a reasonable guide, writes Newser founder Michael Wolff in Vanity Fair. Unlike general-interest newspapers, which flail about knowing too little about everything, Politico has an obsessive focus:... More »

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politics • news • online news • journalism • Michael Wolff • Politico

(Newser) - Political correspondent Jeff Greenfield examined what he called "the demise of the great metropolitan daily" on CBS News this morning, wondering what will replace it. The answer: Newser, among other online sources. "It is potentially an incredibly good time," said Newser founder Michael Wolff. "We have... More »

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newspaper • online media • online newspapers • Michael Wolff

 The Beast's Roar Fades 


Feb 4, 09 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Is media darling Tina Brown headed for another disaster? That's what the Observer is asking, noting that traffic to the celebrity editor's website dropped 17% after its glitzy launch last fall. Despite a start-up budget said to be as high as $18 million, and a staff of 24, the Daily... More »

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media • Tina Brown • Michael Wolff • Daily Beast

OPINION

Black Berates Newser Founder From Jail

News mogul attacks biography's depiction
of rival Murdoch

Dec 17, 08 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Convicted felon Conrad Black has skipped time in the exercise yard to pen a review from prison of the new biography of his old rival Rupert Murdoch. Black complains that biographer Michael Wolff is at once too deferential and takes "extreme psychological liberties" in The Man Who Owns the ... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Conrad Black • biography • book • News Corp • Michael Wolff • Daily Beast

Regan Attacks
Newser Founder


Dec 14, 08 4:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Judith Regan is ready to take her rage to court, Rush & Molloy write in the New York Daily News. The former Harper Collins publisher says Newser founder Michael Wolff crossed the line by calling her "reviled" and "unemployable" in his book, The Man Who ... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • lawsuit • Judith Regan • Michael Wolff

Murdoch Sees Opportunity in NYT's Troubles

Bio says he'd love to acquire it, make Sulzberger his 'puppet'

Dec 6, 08 11:05 AM CST
(Newser) - First the Journal and next the New York Times? The Economist takes a look at Rupert Murdoch's "ever-stronger" ambition to acquire the Times, as laid out in a new biography, The Man Who Owns the News, by Newser founder Michael Wolff. Murdoch views the Times as his "favorite... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • Arthur Sulzberger Jr. • News Corp • Michael Wolff

analysis

Murdoch Relies More
on Impulse Than Vision


Nov 29, 08 3:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch may be a titan of the media world, but don't look too deeply to figure out what motivates him. In fact, the "most radical idea" in a new biography of Murdoch by Newser founder Michael Wolff is "that there was never a vision or a broad... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • publishing • News Corp • Michael Wolff



Family Deadlock Looms for
News Corp. 

No tie-breaker deal for 4 Murdoch heirs with voting power: Wolff

Nov 28, 08 12:10 PM CST
(Newser) - News Corp. could be headed for a deadlock when 77-year-old Rupert Murdoch's heirs take over, the Financial Times writes, based on a reading of Newser founder Michael Wolff's upcoming book, The Man Who Owns the News. An agreement giving equal shares in the Murdoch family’s stake to all 6... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • James Murdoch • Lachlan Murdoch • Michael Wolff • Elizabeth Murdoch

analysis

 Has Obama 
 Tipped Murdoch Left? 

NY Post coverage trumpets president-elect

Nov 17, 08 9:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Media watchers have been tracking the post-election New York Post with particular interest: Instead of being dyspeptic over the Democratic presidential win, Rupert Murdoch's gleefully right-wing tabloid has treated Barack Obama to coverage ranging, as the New York Times puts it, "from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic."... More »

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Barack Obama • Rupert Murdoch • New York Post • News Corp • liberal • Michael Wolff • President Obama

GLOSSIES

 Meet the Murdochs, 
 the Last News Dynasty 

6 children compete for affection and business, writes Wolff

Nov 3, 08 8:24 AM CST
(Newser) - In an age of MBA-holding executives and shareholder revolts, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is that rarest thing: a business dynasty. The media mogul's six children, by three different wives, have conducted their power plays in public and private. But as Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair, while the elder... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Wendi Deng • James Murdoch • Lachlan Murdoch • News Corp • Michael Wolff

(Newser) - It won't surprise anyone that Rupert Murdoch managed to get his hands on an advance copy of Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of him, despite a strict embargo, or that he complained to the publisher over some of the contents. Murdoch gave Wolff more than 50 hours of interviews and access... More »

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media • Rupert Murdoch • Dow Jones • Roger Ailes • News Corp • Michael Wolff • Peter Chernin

GLOSSIES

 'Ferocious Kind of Love' 
 Behind Times-Bashing 

Hating the Gray Lady, VF finds, often mirrors how one feels about relatives

Jul 16, 08 3:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - It seems these days everyone’s got a beef with the New York Times these days, so Vanity Fair set out to find out why, asking a panel of experts their thoughts. Simple envy is the primary culprit, some say; others cite "a ferocious kind of love"; the paper's... More »

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newspaper • New York Times • media criticism • Jack Shafer • Michael Wolff • Jonah Goldberg

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