The Wall Street Journal has announced a replacement for Nik Deogun, who left the paper recently to take a post as managing editor at CNBC. His replacement is Rebecca Blumstein, who will now enter the elusive Wall Street Journal troika as international editor of the WSJ and deputy managing [...]
In response to yesterday's column by David Carr that accused the Wall Street Journal of post-Murdoch news filtering towards the conservative, WSJ editor-in-chief Robert Thomson replied that the New York Times is jealous of the Journal's success. 
Sunday was the second anniversary of Murdoch's purchase of The Wall Street Journal, an event that many press and journalism experts decried as sullying the hallowed status of the respected paper. In the last quarter, Time Inc.’s operating income declined 40 percent amid an advertising recession and the movement of readers away from print toward the Web.
Mr. Bewkes, speaking in April about the future of Time Warner during a conference call with Wall Street analysts, said it “may well include publishing, [...]
The Wall Street Journal Opinion page has an analysis of where this situation is going:
You stupidly built a drive-in theater in the desert just as your customers were all deciding to stay home and watch HBO. Fortunately, the theater turns out to be sitting on a mountain of oil.
With [...]
In an article in The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch is optimistic about the future of journalism in this age of newspaper cutbacks and the overwhelming concerns with bottom-line budgets rather than quality journalism. Reuters, a longtime powerhouse in providing content to the online world, is making a push as a destination site with its redesign, which went live last night.
Editor-in-chief David Schlesinger made the announcement. David Kaplan at paidContent has the story.
In May at the Wall Street Journal's All' [...]
I’m responsible again this year to try to track down Asia-based journalists interested in a fellowship, funded by The Wall Street Journal Asia in association with New York University, for the three-semester masters program in business and economic reporting at the NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica and former Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal, has given his take on the future of journalism in the digital age.
Regardless of one’s opinion on global warming, the leaked emails now making headlines are interesting for another issue. They are shining light into a growing challenge to scientific publication peer review. A Wall Street Journal opinion essay today explores these issues in our era of increasing open source of [...]
Wikipedia has been loosing editors at an alarming rate in recent months, reports the Wall Street Journal. In the first three months of this present year, Wikipedia lost 49 000 English-language editors, as compared to the 4 900 they lost during the same time frame [...] Brewster Kahle, John Borthwick, and I were interviewed last week for WSJ piece that was published this week:
[via Trying to Save the Web's Shortcuts by Andrew Lavallee]"If one of these organizations were to go away, then it's like part of the whole Web going dark," says Brewster Kahle, co-founder [...]
For years, I’ve been reading that Wikipedia is dying. (Of course, on the internet, anything successful attracts an “is dying” movement.)
Today, there’s a Wall Street Journal article that does a half-way decent job of glancing at the history of the site, but does so under a [...]
Just a day after announcing the appointment of new editor Josh Tyrangiel, BusinessWeek is reportedly formulating plans to lay off 100 employees, according to the Wall Street Journal. A round of redundancies of this size would cut the staff by 25 percent.Last week rumours circulated (again) that Nokia might acquire Palm. Palm shares rallied, but seem to have settled back down this week. The “deal”, after all, is a Wall Street wet dream, and not much more.
It’s true that Nokia’s stock price is suffering and that Nokia’s share is [...]
The Wall Street Journal's new Europe edition comes out today, with changes to both print and online offerings. The US edition of the WSJ will no longer be printed and distributed in London, and its subscribers will be offered the
European version instead.
Chase Carey, News Corp COO, is unhappy at the state of the Wall Street Journal's online paid content arrangements, despite it being one of the few profitable and successful paywalls.
The Wall Street Journal will launch its anticipated Japanese-language website next month, reports Media Asia. Japan.WSJ.com is expected to reproduce Japanese translations of the english WSJ edition as well as content from other Dow Jones publications.It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times and Wall Street Journal moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers -- the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising -- for as long as possible.
Longer-term, it could be' [...]
While search and display are far bigger categories than online video advertising, the digital advertising sector that is hot right now is online video advertising around premium news content.
The Wall Street Journal's sale of pre-roll advertising for its new show the News Hub is sold out at a rate of' [...]
In his latest move, Murdoch has vowed to remove newspapers in his media empire - including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal - from Google's search index. The mogul sees this as step towards encouraging people to pay for online content,' [...] 
