The Media Equation: Mr. Murdoch Comes Round for Tea
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Rupert Murdoch, a coarse, self-seeking tabloid king, has become a potential savior who will rescue Dow Jones.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--As investors speculate about the future landscape of the Australian media industry, newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.
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Rupert Murdoch, consolidating his global media empire in the U.S., is expected to announce that he will buy out the shareholders of his Fox properties.
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Rupert Murdoch's takeover of Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has gotten O.J.-like coverage by us business-news types. Yet here I am, writing about it yet another time. Why? Because I'm interested in one little-noticed detail -- the way selected Dow Jones shareholders will be able to...
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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By Richard Siklos  Mensa quiz, sample question: Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion offer is to blank as Google's $1.65 billion buyout was to blank. Correct answers: Dow Jones and YouTube.
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How two words illuminate the shift of power from the media to the people
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In 1981, Rupert Murdoch and a division of his News Corp. made extraordinary promises about not meddling in the news pages of The Times of London and The Sunday Times, which they were about to take over. But in short order, no one doubted who was firmly in control of the newsrooms.
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Business & money: Media mogul sets out plans to move newspaper into the mainstream in a bid to halt falling sales.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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Rupert Murdoch has solved the question of how news services should provide online video -- for now.
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Rupert Murdoch and John Malone may be fixin' for a fight over the media giant.
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Like it or not, Rupert Murdoch is a New York City staple. As chairman of News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ), the billionaire is a part of Gothamites&#39; lives.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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I put mainstream media in the same league with comic books. The goal of the media is to sell. When it comes to any message coming from the media, caveat emptor.
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Washington, Dec. 18: Rupert Murdoch, who is still viewed by the Kennedys, the Carnegies, the Fords or the Hearsts as a first-generation immigrant from Australia despite being the 43rd richest man in the world