Tag: Rupert Murdoch

  • Carnival of Journalism

    This being part of the Carnival of Journalism (and late), ringmaster Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and international legal systems to help the digital age, and especially journalism in the digital age, flourish? At the risk of making myself unpopular, in our own digital realm – journalism –…

  • The WSJ’s independence – safe in their…Oops!

    So what was the point of that special committee to oversee editorial independence at the Wall Street Journal? I must remind myself. Oh yes.

  • Front page smackdown: the Murdoch WSJ vs the NYT

    The Project for Excellence in Journalism has a nice run of numbers on the Wall Street Journal, pre- and post-Murdoch. Of more interest to me is how the WSJ now lines up against the New York Times.

  • Murdoch fascination

    Shy retiree Rupert Murdoch has been making his presence felt in New York at the Wall Street Journal, and with a bid for Newsday.Jack Shafer will take him on tomorrow but today remarks of an anecdote from the Newsweek profile: It’s a great image, one that expands Murdoch’s distended legend all the way to bloated:…