Mediagazer: News Corp sees profits rise (Dominic Rushe/Guardian)

11:35 AM ET, February 3, 2011

Top News:

“Serendipity and surprise”: How will engagement work for The Daily? — All of us here at the Lab watched the unveiling of The Daily (even those of us who are on a beach sipping umbrella drinks). — But there was something that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said that seems significant now that the genie is out of the bottle.

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Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com:

The Daily isn't as bad as Virgin's Project — Unlike what I wrote in the instant and rather-rough review of Virgin's iPad “magazine” called Project, I can at least write that the Rupert Murdoch/Newscorp daily news app (not a magazine or a newspaper) called The Daily is not crap.

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Daily economics — I have not seen News Corp's Daily (I was invited to the preview last night but travel, exhaustion, health, weather, and thus prudence had me take the train home and I couldn't get in today because of the ice). So I have nothing at all to say about the product.

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who is The Daily trying to reach? What problem is it trying to solve?

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The Daily:
Welcome to the newspaper of the 21st century

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:
So, wait: The Daily uses AP content?

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The Daily:
Introducing The Daily — New York, NY, February 2, 2011 …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch Hopes Apple Will Lower Its Share Of ‘The Daily’ Take

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Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News: NewsCore chases down breaking wire stories for Murdoch's media empire

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Fox News Interrupts News Coverage To Promote Launch Of ‘The Daily’

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Russell Adams / Digits:
Apple to Crack Down on Newspaper, Magazine App Payments

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Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Stewart, Colbert, and Hulu's thoughts about the future of TV — We are extremely happy to announce a broad content agreement between Viacom and Hulu that brings The Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to Hulu and now also to Hulu Plus, beginning this morning.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Jon Stewart's Hulu Price Tag: At Least $40 Million — Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu's biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu at least $40 million to get them back. — That's according to people familiar with the new deal …

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Hollywood Reporter: Hulu, Viacom Announce Content Partnership

Committee to Protect Journalists:

Journalists under physical assault in Egypt — Supporters of President Hosni Mubarak have begun violently attacking journalists reporting on the streets of Cairo today, a shift in tactics from recent media censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

News Corp sees profits rise — News Corp chief refuses to talk about issue at press launch for the Daily, and misses quarterly reports Q&A — Rupert Murdoch dodged questions about the widening phone-hacking scandal yesterday. The chairman and chief executive of News Corp …

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Joe Grimm / Poynter:

Ongo.com CEO: Centralized subscription removes ‘high frustration walls’ between readers & news — Some early observers of Ongo.com may be missing the point. — The subscription site, which launched Jan. 25, is intent on being a great “personal news experience.”

New York Post:

Now, the real work begins at Brown's NewsBeast — The NewsBeast is ALIVE! — But it has problems aplenty, not the least of which is surviving Tina Brown's star system — great if you're enjoying most-favored reporter status and hell if you are not. — The inevitable result is staff discord …

Discussion: New York Observer

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Newsweek veteran Marc Peyser leaves magazine over ‘fallout’ from Beast deal

Discussion: FishbowlNY

AdAge:

Groupon Snags Last-Minute Super Bowl Ad Time — Social-Shopping Phenom Had Been Relegated to Pre- and Post-game Spots — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Groupon's got game time. — Less than a month ago, the online company was shut out of the Super Bowl and was planning on only pre-game and post-game commercials.

Discussion: The Wire, AdFreak and newsfeed.time.com

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

Appeals Court: free Internet porn isn't unfair competition to pay sites — One day in March of 2009, the proprietors of Redtube.com were minding their own business, streaming free pornographic videos to the public, when they received notice of a lawsuit against them in the mail.

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:

MTV UK Tries Charging For Online Catch-Up TV — If you thought that pay-per-view online catch-up TV had been replaced by the free, ad-supported model, think again - MTV has launched a dedicated UK VOD portal, MTV OD, costing £1 ($1.61) a day or £2 ($3.24) a week.

Discussion: The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:

Apple's In-App Rules: ‘Betrayed’ European Publishers Convene A Summit — Publishers in Europe are up in arms over Apple's decision to reject Sony's Reader app. They say Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has left them “confused” with their charging policies, and are now gearing up to meet in London later this month to plan what to do next.

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar, TeleRead and Journalism.co.uk

Kunur Patel / AdAge:

Apple, Campbell's Say iAds Twice as Effective as TV — A Nielsen Study Shows iPhone Users Are Paying Attention, While TV Viewers Not so Much — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's been seven months since the first iAds — Apple's bid to reinvent mobile advertising — started popping up on iPhones and iPods …

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Reddit Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Pageviews — Reddit has reached a new milestone: 1 billion monthly pageviews. That's up 300% from a year ago and a 20% increase from just last month. — As it occasionally does, the Condé Nast-owned company disclosed its January 2011 traffic stats.

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Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Medill and McCormick launch a news innovation lab with $4.2 million in Knight funding — In 2009, while announcing that year's Knight News Challenge winners at a conference at MIT, Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen mentioned the foundation's desire to launch “test kitchens” …

Discussion: Knight Foundation News …, Tower Ticker and KnightBlog

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Quarterly Income Fell 26% for The New York Times Co. — Reflecting a slow advertising recovery across the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a 26.2 percent drop in net income in the fourth quarter from the period a year before.

Discussion: Gawker and Poynter