Digital subscription growth offers respite to news giants battered by Covid-19
News Corp yesterday rounded off a bleak week of financial reports from the journalism industry’s biggest companies, reporting a 22%…
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News Corp loses appeal against £1.6m libel payout to actor Geoffrey Rush
An Australian court has rejected a newspaper publisher’s appeal against Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush’s 2.9 million Australian dollars (£1.6 million)…
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News Corp chief Robert Thomson: ‘Dysfunctional digital landscape’ rewards tech giants not publishers
News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson said the “dysfunctional digital landscape” disproportionately rewards distributors like Facebook and Google over the…
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Google and Facebook share prices recover from Covid-19 slump while ad-reliant publishers struggle
Google and Facebook’s share prices have recovered to pre-coronavirus crisis levels, suggesting fears over their advertising revenues are receding. But…
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Wall Street Journal publisher warns media brands must personalise news to survive
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal has warned that “great media brands might not survive” if they do not…
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Times and Sunday Times first newspapers on board for UK launch of paid Apple News service
Apple’s paid subscription news service has launched in the UK with the Times and Sunday Times the first newspapers on…
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News Corp pushes for Google to be broken up by Australian regulator to end ‘substantial’ market power
News Corp, ultimate owner of the Sun and Times newspapers, has pushed for Google to be broken up to “remedy…
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Comcast abandons pursuit of 21st Century Fox to focus on rival Sky bid
US cable giant Comcast has dropped plans to bid for Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox assets, with plans to focus…
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