Rupert Murdoch's new weekly pricing plan for The Wall Street Journal's mobile app looks steep, but it should reinforce the value of subscribing to the paper.
Dow Jones announced an online venture that combines The Wall Street Journal's Web site with Dow Jones's business-to-business news service and databases." />
Sony's electronic reader will offer subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, the latest in a series of moves by publishers and consumer-electronics companies to loosen Amazon's hold on the embryonic e-reader market." />
Interesting conversation cropping up regarding WSJ's guidelines for journalists using social media. Click on the link to Editor & Publisher to see the guidelines.
A must-read series on online privacy by the Wall Street Journal. If you browse the web, if you write email, if you have an ISP you should know about this
I know we've discussed in class how Google (and other entities) seems to know so much about us, but isn't it a bit naive to assume the opposite? We expose a piece of our private lives in every way: credit cards for example track where we go, where we eat, what we buy, and the like. Even if paying cash at places, we're signing up for list servs, blogs, campaigns, donating to charities that require contact information, filling out surveys. Given this, is it all that surprising that we are being "watched"? I don't think it's possible to function in today's society without exposing much of ourselves (when you want to pay cash somewhere, the bank knows when, where, what time of day you withdrew money), unless we change our names or deliver false information.
In The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the Internet will not destroy news organizations. He says that Google working in cooperation with publishers of newspapers and magazines can help bring about a business model to share ad revenue from searches." />
Students of GW can get full access to this article through http://www.gelman.gwu.edu. Go to the listing of databases and search for the Wall Street Journal.
News Corp. CEO Murdoch said traditional newspaper and television advertising markets are picking up, but they still must devise new strategies to compete with Internet ads and free online news." />
USA Today, long the country's largest newspaper by weekday circulation, said it had experienced a circulation decline, which is likely to knock it down to No. 2." />