24
Jul 12

Murdoch, MailOnline and other accelerating disruptions

A significant marker in the rapid evolution of news media has just been passed – and it wasn’t the resignation of Rupert Murdoch from the boards of his UK newspaper companies or the charging of News of the World journalists.

The Daily Mail’s online edition, MailOnline, is reported to have just made its first operating profit. The site, driven by carefully-judged global celebrity coverage and a little sprinkling of soft porn, overtook the New York times some months ago to log the world’s largest user numbers for a news site. The NYT, for once sniffy for understandable reasons, said that they didn’t consider it competition.

So we have these developments to interpret:

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15
Jun 10

Paywall watch

An astute survey of where NewsCorp is shifting on digital outlets for newspaper content which make charging easy here. And John Gapper’s take on today’s bid for Sky (and via him, Robert Peston’s interpretation).

And an FT blog goes behind the paywall.

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