A $71bn recovery: How news businesses have bounced back from Covid-19 slump
Several of the world’s largest news companies are more valuable now than they were before the Covid-19 crisis began, an…
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How The Daily podcast is helping the New York Times drive advertising and subscription growth
The New York Times’ flagship podcast The Daily attracts 4m listeners a day, and is “almost twice as large as…
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Australian documents reveal how News Corp, Mail and other publishers plan to battle tech giants on global scale
News Corp has accused Google of misleading Australian regulators as it seeks to avoid paying publishing companies for their news…
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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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