It’s not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month. “Unlike the Kindle, we keep 100 percent of the…

This Sunday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt will address the American Society of News Editors at their conference in Washington D.C.—and, par for the course, it’s on the heels of a Rupert Murdoch appearance at the National Press Club with Google among the topics. At a lengthy taping of…

Over the past few years satellite distributor DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) serially has been under the control of two of the most powerful men in media. Now neither of them has it—and it’s the direct result of the transfer of controlling power from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE: NWS). to John…

Nothing like a good, hard dose of scathing reality to scare the hell out of a media audience. Michael Wolff - the Vanity Fair columnist, Newser operator and Murdoch biographer - happily obliged at MediaGuardian’s Changing Media Summit in London… That Wolff is both a media realist and an increasing…

News Corp.. (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch celebrates his 79th birthday with a cameo on his own Fox Business Network. Among the topics ... the newspaper ad model not dead yet (if we were Gawker we’d have to follow that with “neither am I”); iPad will attract more…

At the opening speech of the first Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Rupert Murdoch is exhorting Arab nations to open up and let creative talents flow. Of course, he has his own agenda: open it up to our content as well. This is the show-me-the-money quote: “When we look to the…

In a speech before the Real Estate Board of New York, Rupert Murdoch finally acknowledged that WSJ will launch its special New York metro edition in April. The other part everyone already knew—but has gone otherwise unsaid, publicly at least—is that the section is being aimed at challenging the NYT’s…

During News Corp.‘s earnings call, a triumphant Rupert Murdoch asked listeners to pardon his lack of humility, but he boasted that the company’s “content is not just king, it’s the emperor of all things electronic.” While the company’s results were fueled largely by the strength of its cable and film…

[by Roy Greenslade] Imagine the scene: a busy newsagent’s shop in west London one morning. A hard-pressed woman behind the counter recognises two smartly dressed men in suits as sales representatives from the newspaper publisher News International. With them is a polite, elderly gentleman she cannot place. But he is…

If it’s Tuesday—or any day of the week lately for that matter—it must be time for Rupert Murdoch to hit the tube. Today’s conduit: his own Fox Business Network. The News Corp chairman and CEO hit some of the usual subjects, but with a few variations. Some excerpts here, video…

Another executive change at News Corp.: Gary Ginsberg, one of Rupert Murdoch’s top advisers, is leaving the company at the end of the year. Ginsberg, EVP of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs, joined News Corp (NYSE: NWS). to head corporate communications in 1999 and moved far beyond that; he has…

Rupert Murdoch was in Sydney for the latest News Corp earnings call but that wasn’t the only talking he did down under. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO was interviewed by some of his own newsies, including a lengthy video session with Sky News political editor David Speers,…

Rupert Murdoch knocked down at least one acquisition rumor—one he helped give life to at the News Corp annual meeting—and left one standing during the company’s fiscal Q1 earnings call. Speaking from Sydney, the chairman and CEO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). said:  “We’re not interested in NBC as such…

As luck would have it, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) annual meetings both took place in New York today—the same day that GE CEO Jeff Immelt once again was talking IPO or partner for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) during an earnings call. Both companies have…

When was the last time you heard the word “MySpace” from Murdoch? Exactly. Any trip he makes these days turns out to be about, well, what else, paid content. This one, for instance, to South Korea: he is there and will meet senior execs at Samsung and LG (SEO: 066570),…

Some of my live Twitter coverage of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). FY09/Q4 earnings call. Among other things, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said the company plans to start charging for all its news sites and suggested the company will break up with the Kindle: »  Murdoch: Following…

Updated In the latest round of will he-won’t he, Rupert Murdoch told his own Fox Business Network not to expect a Kindle-like device from News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Speaking in Sun Valley, where he is participating in the Allen & Co. conference, Murdoch said: “I don’t think that’s likely. We’re…

Missed this during my travels—Rupert Murdoch admitting to fault for the way MySpace morphed into an overgrown company in need of a massive trim. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS) chairman and CEO told TheStreet.com he hasn’t given up on global ambitions for the social network: “We’re just getting first things…

For the second time in as many weeks, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is back on his own airwaves (dressed a little more formally than his Carlsbad casual look from last go round). Murdoch told Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto it’s “too early” to talk…