Thursday, October 22, 2009
The New (New) Mediaconomy
It’s a clash of civilizations: the paywalls are rising again, Rupert’s on a rampage against the Internetz, and the subtext is none too subtle.
Friday, October 16, 2009
News Corp Lawyer: Aggregators Steal From Us! News Corp: Hey Check Out Our Aggregator!
We’ve already covered how Rupert Murdoch has flip flopped his position on free online news, but his recent foray into blaming search engines and aggregators is really reaching the height of hypocrisy.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Lots of Fee Ideas for Media Online
Five months ago, a group of media executives including Steven Brill seemed to have the field to itself when it said it was building a system for newspapers to charge readers for access online.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
How Much Would YOU Pay to Read Still More About Sicko Garrido?
On the web, lurid, sensationalistic news is priced at $0 (for now, at least). Maybe it’s worth exactly that.
Monday, August 10, 2009
My Advice to Fox and MySpace on Selling Content–Yes You Can
Rupert, you didn’t ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Barry Diller: ‘If You Have Too Many Epiphanies, You’re On Some Kind of Drug’
Drippy Manhattan evenings aren’t usually a draw for an outdoor cocktail party but the FoundersClub NYC Internet Week soiree had something that overcomes a little rain: power.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Don’t Get All Huffy About the Huffington Post
As Mark Gimein noted last week in The Big Money, the media giants have put the Web’s journalistic “parasites”–blogs, aggregators, Google–on notice that they will no longer allow them to pinch their copy without reimbursement.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Alms for the Press?
We’ve finally reached the point at which some of the finest minds doing the biggest thinking about the battered news business believe the best eraser for red ink is… charity. Financial pros David Swensen, the chief investment officer at Yale, and his colleague Michael Schmidt posit that the best way to save journalism is to go the nonprofit route, funded by endowments. But is it?
Thursday, May 29, 2008
D6: Rupert Murdoch for Obama? Not Quite…. But
Today at the D6:Conference, the corporate doyens and business leaders were out in full force, both on and off stage. Those who were grilled on stage showed were true to their form–Amazon’s Jeff Bezos charmed everyone with optimism for Kindle, Yahoo’s Jerry Yang was all emotion and patience, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook showed that he is still a young fella brimming with big dreams.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Rupert to the Rescue? Probably Not
Does News Corp. really want a piece of Yahoo? Word leaked out Wednesday that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (owner of this site–Ed.) is looking at taking a stake of 20% or more in Yahoo in exchange for MySpace, some cash and other online properties. An infusion from News Corp., the reasoning goes, could boost Yahoo’s stock price high enough to outstrip Microsoft’s hostile takeover attempt. This is probably as close as Yahoo will get to a white-knight scenario where someone saves the company from the clutches of Microsoft. But a News Corp. deal probably won’t happen. Why?
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The Pros, Cons and Weirdness of Microsoft-Yahoo
After years of rumors, it finally happened. On Friday, Microsoft made its buyout offer for Yahoo. But while that was expected to happen, as both companies have had trouble catching online advertising juggernaut Google, what wasn’t so expected was that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would go all Murdoch on Yahoo with a hostile bid at a 62% premium over Yahoo’s stock price. But unlike Rupert Murdoch’s hostile bid for Dow Jones, Ballmer doesn’t have to contend with family ownership or strange stock structures.
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