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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

With advertising still struggling, the WSJ is expanding its commerce offerings by getting into travel services. The site, WSJ Travel, will sell and promote vacation packages. Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), the WSJ’s parent, makes it clear that the travel site is separate from the paper’s editorial side. The travel effort…

Less than a month after the surprise announcement that Todd Larsen had been promoted to president of Dow Jones and Clare Hart was out, Larsen is filling in his own org chart for the combined consumer and enterprise businesses. The new set up is divided into five business groups, each…

A new year and a new org chart for Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) & Company: Clare Hart, president of the Enterprise Media Group and an EVP, is leaving and Todd Larsen is the survivor, moving to president of Dow Jones and heading all business ops as the company combines its…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has struck a deal with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). that gives the electronics company the opportunity to sell subscriptions to the WSJ digital edition of the WSJ, as well its Dow Jones sibling MarketWatch, plus exclusive rights the digitized New York Post, on its Daily Edition e-reader.…

More change in the Wall Street Journal edit ranks, this time spurred by the defection of Nik Deogun to CNBC. Rebecca Blumenstein, who had been managing editor for online, was promoted to International Editor/DME, taking Deogun’s spot in the WSJ edit “troika” made of the three deputy managing editors heading…

You could almost hear Rupert Murdoch choking on his Corn Flakes last week, when reading - in his own paper, the WSJ - Eric Schmidt’s defensive op-ed that “frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame” for their travails. So Rupe has done what comes pretty easily; he’s penned…

WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson is known for his one-line zingers. He famously told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer earlier this fall that her search engine was encouraging “promiscuity.” He also riled some writers at the WSJ just after his arrival by declaring that some of the paper’s longer-form…