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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." />

A new Wall Street Journal local section may win ads from the NYT.

Why pay for the WSJ when you can get it for free?

Interesting conversation cropping up regarding WSJ's guidelines for journalists using social media. Click on the link to Editor & Publisher to see the guidelines.

Citizens took to the digital streets today to celebrate what has become known as "Internet Freedom Day." The new holiday celebrates users' ability to speak, share, create, and innovate. It commemorates the Internet blackout of Jan. 18, 2012, in which tens of thousands of websites participated, to protest the draconian copyright bills SOPA and PIPA.

Plagued by declining ad pages and dollars, SmartMoney, the Wall Street Journal's 20-year-old personal finance magazine, is ceasing print production and going online-only.

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.

Former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget runs the numbers on newspapers making the migration to online delivery.

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.

Brief, but interesting take on making money online with free content or a free/paid hybrid.

Kindle-killers? A flood of e-readers on the way, some featuring touch and even video chat

'Journal' And Others Say Hearst Is Right To Charge For Mobile Content - 03/12/2010

I can't believe these books haven't been available for years! Also interesting to me because I used to live on the same street and just two blocks down from Beacon Press.

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." />