Buried inside today’s not-as-bad-as-feared newspaper circulation FAS-FAX (newspaper circ was only down 8.75 percent daily), some data on what’s going on with e-editions. The number of daily electronic editions sold by the newspapers at the top of the category rose 40 percent, according to reports made to the Audit Bureau…

During the Q1 earnings call last week, New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) Janet Robinson was grilled on the company’s plans to deal with the much-ballyhooed New York expansion of the Wall Street Journal—and tried to insist the strategy was to treat the WSJ like all competition. Then she quickly…

IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) are shutting down FiLife today, paidContent has learned and IAC has confirmed. We reported last month that the plug could be pulled but sources then insisted that all options were being explored. Today, the staff is learning those options have run out.…

The news producers are getting antsier against the aggregators day-by-day, and who else but Rupert Murdoch to lead the charge. Dow Jones, part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). has filed a lawsuit against Briefing.com, the “live” market analysis service that is sold as a subscription and also available for free…

Now this is what I call targeted advertising. The Wall Street Journal is so keen on its new iPad app, it’s advertising it to online readers of the rival Financial Times. These banners were spotted when logged in to FT.com as a subscriber, and link straight to the WSJ.com order…

Rupert Murdoch has already made it quite clear that he believes in paywalls. Today’s launch of WSJ.com’s “professional edition” for $49 a month shows he has concluded that it’s important to have lots of paywalls for readers to choose from. As of last week, WSJ readers’ digital paywall options were…

The app announcements have been rolling out all morning in anticipation of tomorrow’s iPad release. Among the initial iPad apps now in Apple’s online store is the WSJ’s app, which is free to download, but costs users for $3.99 per week for access—compared to the $2.69 a week charge for…

Update: While the WSJ is certainly trying to drive a wedge between the NYT and its readers and advertisers, it looks like the Dow Jones-owned paper’s low-cost subscriptions have been around a while, says media watchdog CJR. Also, it’s worth pointing out the NYT is not averse to introductory subscriber…

Less than two months after talking up the turnaround at Dow Jones-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) personal finance JV FiLife, paidContent has learned the site’s continued existence is no certainty. It survived the multiple trimmings as Barry Diller cut back on IAC’s portfolio of emerging businesses, but the company is now exploring…

The WSJ’s New York metro edition is debuting in about two weeks and with it, a stepped up effort to challenge the NYT’s tight hold on area readers and lucrative luxury ads. As the date approaches, the NYT isn’t taking the threat lying down; the paper has just launched an…

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…

As expected, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has bought the remaining 50 percent stake in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst. The financial terms weren’t disclosed. In addition to the magazine, Dow Jones will own 100 percent of the related website along with the SmartMoney Custom Solutions unit. In a statement,…

The WSJ has been targeting the NYT’s luxury retail advertisers for over a year, but with the expected debut of the News Corp-owned paper’s NYC metro section in April, the ad war will officially begin, AdAge reports. While the NYT has expressed confidence in its ability to maintain its long-standing…

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) wants to buy the 50 percent stake it doesn’t currently have in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst, the WSJ reports, citing unidentified sources. No word on what price DJ is offering for the magazine, though a deal could be hammered out by next week. The…

While others are trying to figure out how to charge for their content, Dow Jones’ financial news site MarketWatch is plowing ahead with plans for several new pay-to-subscribe newsletters. On Monday, MarketWatch will unveil Revolution Investing, a premium newsletter aimed at traders for an annual fee of $199; the early-bird…

While Murdoch’s footsoldiers rush to charge for consumer news like WSJ.com does for biz content, and while WSJ.com itself continues its European expansion, one part of the pie is often overlooked… Financial News, DJ’s subscription site covering the London securities market, has redesigned and maintained its place in the Wall…

Update: Dow Jones has issued a release saying it is forming a joint venture with CME Group to operate a global financial index services business. The business is valued at $607.5 million. The new joint venture will also raise roughly $613 million in third-party debt which will be used to…

News Corp earnings were up across the board, as the company swung to a profit of $254 million ($0.10) in Q4, reversing $6.4 billion loss. The company said this reflected double-digit growth at its “majority business segments.” Even the newspaper/information segment was up, gaining 29.5 percent over last year’s period.…

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Current Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli exited his one-year stint as managing editor of the WSJ with $6.4 million, Politico says, citing a new book about News Corp.‘s purchase of the newspaper’s parent, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), a little more than two years ago.