Rupert Murdoch

LulzSec brings the “lulz” to Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp

Barely a month after announcing its retirement, LulzSec has made a return to the limelight placing the beleaguered News Corporation (NewsCorp) and what it…

From MySpace to viral mother-in-laws: This week in tech and web news

Hurrah, hurrah, another week has gone and though it seemed questionable — particularly around Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — Friday has managed to…

Rupert Murdoch strikes again: No more free Post for iPad users

Perhaps it was his doomed adventure with Myspace, or maybe he was too set in his old media ways. Whatever it was, Rupert Murdoch,…

The Daily, Murdoch’s digital newspaper is a hit

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has fared well with the success of The Daily, a digital newspaper created for Apple’s iPad by his company, News…

The Daily comes to Android?

Rupert Murdoch is not your everyday ‘run-of-the-mill-kinda-news-guy’. For one, the media mogul is listed as one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine, ranks…

With The Daily, News Corp and Apple try to shake up the news business model

Rupert Murdoch is the biggest man in media. Apple is one of the hottest companies in tech. The two have teamed up to make…

Murdoch’s Digital Daily finally launches

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is planning to launch The Daily, the media tycoon’s exclusive digital newspaper for the iPad, in New York on Wednesday….

Murdoch’s much-hyped ‘iPad newspaper’ to launch next week

News Corp. and Apple are to unveil The Daily next week, a digital newspaper for the iPad, the tablet computer Rupert Murdoch hopes may…

Google keeps the faith with MySpace search, ads

MySpace on Thursday announced that Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online social network under pressure to improve its…

News Corp loses patience with MySpace

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. put MySpace on notice on Wednesday, saying the losses at the ailing social network were unsustainable and there needs to…

Newspaper paywalls are freemium business models

Newspaper paywalls have been criticised by many people in geek communities across the world and also by popular journalism bloggers such as Clay Shirky,…

MySpace? What about all the money going into newspapers?

Gavin O’Reilly, the president for the World Association of Newspapers, said on Tuesday morning in Cape Town, that while there was so much hype…

The media should take note of bloggers

It’s been easy for some to dismiss the blogosphere as a fringe publishing phenomenon. Publishers, who have had a monopoly on mainstream publishing since…

Online media – growing pains

I did a PDF of my powerpoint presentation (3mbs) at the recent Captivate Student Media conference that I popped down to Grahamstown for on…

The people have written

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism website in Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.za The relentless pace of technology is turning everyone into citizen reporters….

Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?

Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…

Changing media's battlefield

Ok play is over. Need to do some business here. Conference is tomorrow where I’ll be chatting about online journalism vs traditional journalism. This…

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he freed the publishers. But when the World Wide Web was pioneered by Tim Berners-Lee, it was said that the readers were now freed. The age of the internet has given unprecedented power to the reader by creating one of the most democratic and accessible forms of publishing yet – the blog.

Revenge of the amateurs

Now South Africa has its own citizen journalism offering via Johnnic’s commendable reporter.co.za One of the first images of the Asian Tsunami crisis came…

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