At Goldman Sachs’ annual media conference in early 2009, News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch, told investors “I do certainly see the day when more people will be buying their newspapers on portable reading panels than on crushed trees.” A few months later Murodch, in conjunction with Apple’s Steve Jobs, introduced The Daily, a periodical produced exclusively [...]
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News Corporation's Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch’s decision in 2010 to put up a paywall on the websites for the London Times and its corresponding Sunday edition, The Sunday Times, the first of its kind for general interest news periodicals, the entire newspaper industry paid close attention. Up to that point, only subject specific papers, such as [...] No one can deny the extensive role social media has had in both the lead-up to and organization of the current protest movements throughout the Middle East region. Often times, in trying to understand how social media has affected the Middle East region, we make the tragic mistake of using Western paradigms of socioeconomic and political [...] The junction between media and administration can be found every day at around 1 PM in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing of the White House. It is here where President Obama’s Press Secretary engages reporters in what can only be described as a rhetorical street fight. The place where time [...] There are 635 days until the day of the 2012 Presidential Election. Already we have seen a series of potential candidates throwing out test balloons and starting to fundraise in order to build up their war chests. Yet, all of this is to be expected as the downtime between elections has been decreasing significantly in recent [...] |
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