Beet.tv: WSJ to expand live news video online
Alan Murray, executive editor, Wall Street Journal Online, discusses the site’s plans to expand its live video news online in a beet.tv interview:
paidContent: WSJ ready to start charging for mobile apps
The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone and the video site Hulu can be expected to introduce some kind of payment model, News Corp CEO and chairman Rupert Murdoch told delegates at the the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference.
Tags: Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII, hulu, news, News Corp, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, WSJSimilar posts:
- FT.com: Murdoch considers charging for online news, developing e-reader
- The First Post: Murdoch’s ‘radical rethink’ for online news; announces $3.4bn loss
- FT.com: WSJ to introduce micropayments
- MediaGuardian: New pay walls will be delayed, says Murdoch
- Round-up: Charging for online – Murdoch and the FT
Poynter Online: Limitations of automated news tweets
July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging
Amy Gahran shows us why automated services can sometimes make for funny news descriptions:
This was a tweet from the Wall Street Journal on June 27:
“BREAKING NEWS: Prosecutors get a $170 billion judgment against Bernard Madoff. Ruth Madoff agrees to give up nearly all ass..”
Gahran says:
Tags: Amy Gahran, automated services, Twitter, Wall Street Journal“The Journal, like some other news organizations, uses a popular service called Twitterfeed to automatically generate tweets based on an RSS feed. Normally, I’m all in favor of automation that saves time and effort, but Twitter is one place where automation usually doesn’t work, especially for news.”
Similar posts:
Nieman Journalism Lab: Matthew Ingram on the WSJ’s social media policy
May 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Social media and blogging
The Wall Street Journal’s rules of conduct were zipping around yesterday, inspiring comments from Jeff Jarvis, and others. Matthew Ingram, over at the Nieman Journalism Lab, agrees with Jarvis that the restrictions are too tight.
“Obviously, a newspaper doesn’t want to give away the store and tell everyone what stories it is working on, or tip its hand in a variety of other ways, and probably doesn’t want to go into detail about how certain stories emerged (especially if it was a fortuitous accident). But Jarvis is right that talking about stories that are under way can also have tremendous benefits,” Ingram writes.
Tags: Jeff Jarvis, Matthew Ingram, nieman journalism lab, Wall Street JournalSimilar posts:
- Nieman Journalism Lab: Why the NYT was wrong to keep quiet about Rohde’s kidnap
- Twitter workshop for journalists shared – courtesy of Globe & Mail’s Matthew Ingram
- Jarvis reflects on name-calling in the blogground
- Archant’s director of business development, Ian Davies dies in plane crash
- Comment Is Free: Jarvis vs Tomasky: what rules for citizen journalists?
FT.com: WSJ to introduce micropayments
May 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism
The Wall Street Journal is planning to bring in a micropayment system for individual articles and premium subscriptions on its website, according to Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief.
The pricing structure will be ‘rightfully high’, according to Thomson.
Last week Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, said he was now convinced it was possible for newspapers to charge for content online given the success of the WSJ’s existing model.
Tags: micropayments, Wall Street Journal, WSJSimilar posts:
- FT.com: Murdoch considers charging for online news, developing e-reader
- paidContent: WSJ ready to start charging for mobile apps
- The First Post: Murdoch’s ‘radical rethink’ for online news; announces $3.4bn loss
- MediaGuardian: New pay walls will be delayed, says Murdoch
- Reuters: Google CEO raises doubts about Murdoch’s online pay walls
Columbia Journalism Review: Identity crisis at the Wall Street Journal?
May 6th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Online Journalism
Liza Featherstone takes a look at working relationships and attitudes at the Wall Street Journal, since it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 2007, for the Columbia Journalism Review.
Tags: liza featherstone, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal“At the Journal’s offices in lower Manhattan, just about everyone is grateful that the new owner has deep pockets and is willing to invest in reporting – both rare commodities in the industry these days. Yet there are reasons to fear that in the midst of a global financial crisis, arguably the biggest test a business newspaper could face, with greater demand for high-quality journalism on finance and the economy than at anytime in decades, the Journal is abandoning values that have long distinguished it: a commitment to deep reporting and elegant writing.”
Similar posts:
- FT results: FT.com paid-for subscriptions up 9%
- Comment: Treasury committee shoots the media messenger over UK banking crisis
- Financial round-up: FT Alphaville on Facebook; headlinemoney.co.uk expands
- Bloomberg: Axel Springer plans internet and foreign expansion
- FT.com: New York Times ad sales down by 16.4 per cent
Nieman Journalism Lab: Video: WSJ managing ed on ‘the new skillset for online’
April 16th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Training
Great excerpted footage from an interview with Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray on the new skills needed by reporters and news organisations – including marketing – a dirty word for an older generation of journalists.
Tags: Alan Murray, Wall Street JournalSimilar posts:
Politico: WSJ reporters launch own investigative journalism project
Wall Street Journal reporters Sue Schmidt and Glenn Simpson are leaving the title to set up a new firm, where they’ll conduct investigative work for private clients. A sign of the times?
Tags: Glenn Simpson, investigative journalism, Sue Schmidt, Wall Street Journal, WSJSimilar posts:
- TheStar.com: Alternative funding avenues for investigative journalism
- TheDailyBeast: Ex-WSJ assistant publisher on paid online content – myths and facts
- Big Brother Watch: How an investigative journalist lost his job because of the UK’s libel system
- StarsandStripes.com: US military terminates PR contract for background checks on journalists
- Ta-da! Insite goes live – a brand new online research website
TheDailyBeast: Ex-WSJ assistant publisher on paid online content – myths and facts
“The Wall Street Journal makes millions from its pay website. Here are the secrets to its success – and what other papers can learn from it.”
Former Wall Street Journal assistant publisher, Richard J. Tofel, describes the facts and the myths about making a paid-for online model work.
Tags: daily beast, paid-for model, richard tofel, Wall Street JournalSimilar posts:
NYTimes.com: Rupert Murdoch’s fondness for newspapers ‘has become a significant drag’ for News Corp
February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Newspapers
Rupert Murdoch has his own office at the Wall Street Journal, built within days of buying it, comments the New York Times. He is ‘as much old-fashioned press baron as 21st century multimedia mogul,’ the piece continues. “But, he faces a depressing reality: his lifelong fondness for newspapers has become a significant drag on the fortunes of his company, the News Corporation.”
Tags: NYTimes.com, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street JournalSimilar posts:
- WSJ’s managing editor Marcus Brauchli steps down
- Guardian.co.uk: The subbing ‘Terminator’ speaks out in print
- Telegraph.co.uk: News Corp loss of £4.4bn will lead to job cuts
- MediaGuardian: Manchester Evening News weekly offices to go – 150 jobs axed
- Editor&Publisher: Time spent on top 30 American newspaper web sites down significantly
Join us at news:rewired, 14 January 2010
Working in journalism and want to boost your digital skills? Questions about starting a news business online that you've been too afraid to ask?
Come to news:rewired on 14 January 2010 at City University, London, to ask the experts. Meet pioneers in multimedia and online journalism at our one-day event.
More details on the news:rewired site.Think we’re the best site for journalists?
Main news from Journalism.co.uk- Mayomo: A global mission for user-generated news November 6, 2009
- Reuters backs multimedia journalism co-operative for Berlin Wall coverage November 6, 2009
- What does a jobs crisis mean for journalism education? November 6, 2009
- PCC appoints Stephen Abell as new director November 5, 2009
- Time running out for OhmyNews' members' club November 5, 2009
- Lord Falconer questions accuracy of 24-hour rolling news November 5, 2009
- 'Absolute disgrace' if election leaders' debate not held, says Sky News political editor November 5, 2009
- Revisiting Lebanon: 'Journalists are seen as just another casualty category' November 4, 2009
- Bureau of Investigative Journalism to recruit up to 20 journalists November 4, 2009
- Reuters to host 'unconference' on social media and journalism November 4, 2009
