Sky News Australia goes viral overseas. Plus: Nine greenlights Melissa Caddick drama two days after her remains foundSky News Australia’s YouTube channel now has more subscribers than ABC News: 1.31m to Aunty’s 1.129m. When your best prime-time show, Andrew Bolt’s, regularly has about 80,000 viewers that’s impressive. The Murdoch platform may have chief political reporter Kieran Gilbert front and centre of the publicity photos but the channel’s popularity has nothing to do with news.The secret to Sky’s success online is provocative rightwing commentary. When News Corp journo Miranda Devine told host Paul Murray this week that US president Joe Biden had a “cognitive impairment” without providing any evidence, it went viral. That clip – “Joe Biden needs help from Jill Biden as he is ‘cognitively impaired’” – got 1.2m views in two days. Although Sky is a subscription channel, anyone can watch the YouTube videos for free. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp is in the process of being split into separate publishing and entertainment companies. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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German publishers will disappear from Google News on Aug. 1 unless they opt in to the service as Google seeks to comply with a new German law. But the publishers said on Monday that this is not good enough, they want a share in Google's revenue.The law will come into effect on Aug. 1 and gives... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since Google News began, publishers have complained that it scrapes their content and offers little in return, letting readers get vital parts of stories as short snippets. In late 2012, the site settled with Belgian publishers after a six-year-long ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Inc. FB -3.51% is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tail ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite its "Defend Your Net" campaign last year, Google was unable to fully put the brakes on changes to German copyright law that may mean it has to pay up for news excerpts it indexes. As a result, the company announced that unlike the other 60 countries where Google News operates by relying... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. (NWSA)’s publishing spinoff began trading today at a market value of about $9.1 billion, one-seventh the size of the entertainment side of the media empire, underscoring the business’s growth challenges. The &ldqu ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Children’s is planning to build on audiobook sales growth, as it launches a new... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As print magazine and book publishers struggle to stay afloat, Not Safe For Work, a print magazine and news startup in Las Vegas, has raised $250,000 in seed funding from Base Ventures, VentureWire has learned. The company offers a monthly print ma ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The incoming boss of News Corporation's publishing business believes there are reasons to be optimistic about the print industry as its newspapers are reshaped for the digital age. Robert Thomson, who will head the 'new News Corp' once ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corporation's board of directors has approved the plans to separate its cable and broadcasting networks from its troubled publishing businesses, paving the way for it to take place on 28 June. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2013-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp announces it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses on 28 June, two years after the UK phone-hacking scandal involving the News of the World. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dan Brown's hotly anticipated Inferno (Bantam Press) has become one of the fastest-selling... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Recharge your book marketing strategy, boost your outreach success and build lasting relationships with readers and customers at the Reaching Readers Conference on May 28. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With a global television network operation in place, Bloomberg News is using video clips from its shows as well as Web-only videos to produce some 200 clips per day, signaling a new "digital first" approach, says Chris Berend ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The British Supreme Court has decided partially in favour of news-clipping service Meltwater in its long-running dispute with UK newspaper publishers, who accused Meltwater of distributing excerpts of stories online without paying any licensing fees. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amsterdam will take on the role of city of honor at the upcoming Buenos Aires Book Fair and strengthen the relationship between Latin America and Holland. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of printed books jumped more than £1m last week, after the value of the market hit a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Years of quiet sacrifice boil dry as a father in his late 50s fears he's losing everying, including his beloved daughter."Parental love is the sacrifice made in silence," says Jorgen Hofmeester, the protagonist of "Tirza," Arnon Grunberg's latest translated novel. In "Tirza," the quiet martyrdom... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint HarperPress will publish Margaret Thatcher’s autobiography as a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Distribution Service's Australian arm is reportedly to make 50 positions redundant... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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