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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‘Just stop it’: News execs Will Lewis and Lionel Barber condemn journalists’ ‘unbecoming’ use of social media to share opinions
Two senior newspaper executives have condemned journalists’ “unbecoming” use of social media to share their opinions and exclusive content. Will…
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Covid-19 crisis drives more than a million new digital subs for leading news providers
Ten of the biggest newspaper groups in the US and UK have collectively gained more than 1m new digital subscriptions…
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China expels three Wall Street Journal reporters over ‘sick man of Asia’ headline
China says it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion…
By 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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Wall Street Journal closes UK-based Europe edition as focus switches from print ads to digital subs
News Corp has scrapped the print edition of the Wall Street Journal in Europe some 24 years after it was…
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News Corp’s Will Lewis says ‘I did my bit’ on phone-hacking clean-up and questions motivation of Google
Will Lewis, who was tasked with handling the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal at News International (now News UK), has…
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Facebook to sell subscriptions to paywall-protected news websites through its mobile app, sources claim
Facebook is creating a feature that will allow news websites sat behind a paywall to sell subscriptions directly to users…
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