Rupert Murdoch Starts Online Newspaper | Shadowland
Internet critic Rupert Murdoch is making a new newspaper, specially adapted for smartphones and mobile devices and netbooks.
It was during the News Corporation’s quarterly presentation that Rupert Murdoch told the Los Angeles Times about the new newspaper. It is not clear when it will come out, but it will probably be sometime later this year year. It is also not known if there will be a subscribtion fee. The paper will appear as an application, and only be distributed to portable devices such as smartphones, netbooks and iPads.
“We’ll have young people reading newspapers,” the 79-year-old Murdoch said during the company’s Aug. 4 earnings call. “It’s a real game changer in the presentation of news.”
He owns News Corporation, the world’s largest Media company. Murdoch is known to be opposed to the internet, since he believes that this powerful media is stealing articles and news from other newspapers.
The new online newspaper will be writing short articles, and it will be led by the tabloid newspaper New York Post. The idea is that the newspaper will be a nationwide U.S. digital newspaper, which will be competing against the USA Today and The New York Times, two national newspapers that Murdoch does not own.
Both editors in New York Post and Dow Jones, which publishes the The Wall Street Journal, will be assisting with articles, but sources LA Times has talked with, states that: “Murdoch could potentially invest millions of dollars to staff the operation”.
Recently, Murdoch has invested hard to be able to charge for online content. The Wall Street Journal is one of very few newspapers in the U.S. that increases circulation, when you count the payment for it’s own internet subscribtion. The newspaper also has its own iPad subscription.
Earlier this summer, Murdoch’s British newspaper The Times, introduced a subscription fee. The number of readers fell dramatically, but the company has not yet disclosed how many people that are still subscribing to the newspaper.
Source: Dagens IT


The new online newspaper will be writing short articles, and it will be led by the tabloid newspaper
Recently, Murdoch has invested hard to be able to charge for online content. The Wall Street Journal is one of very few newspapers in the U.S. that increases circulation, when you count the payment for it’s own internet subscribtion. The newspaper also has its own iPad subscription.