The News Corp. News of the World phone hacking scandal marked its third consecutive week atop the list of the most tweeted news articles, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of July 18-22.
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News Corp.’s iPad newspaper “The Daily” is only a few days old, but now that I have spent some time with it, I think it may be one of the best overall values on the App Store. Why? The crossword puzzle.
Every day “The Daily” features a new crossword puzzle and sudoku game. The interface is the best I have seen for any crossword puzzle on the iPad, and the puzzles are challenging but still fun. In short, for many people the crossword and sudoku puzzles alone may be worth the $0.14 a day.
All that other stuff, the “news” and “content,” it’s all just gravy.
But I have a suggestion for Rupert Murdoch and Jesse Angelo: the iPad is not a piece of paper, so you have an opportunity to really innovate here.
Crossword puzzles and sudoku took off in newspapers because there are only so many things you can do on paper. The iPad does not have those limitations, so there is no reason that the puzzles should only be ports of newspaper games.
On the one-year anniversary of the launch of the iPad, perhaps the most anticipated digital publication for the iPad will make its debut, as News Corp. announced that it will introduce The Daily Feb. 2 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, hosted by CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple vice president of Internet services Eddy Cue.
The Daily was originally slated to debut Jan. 17, and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is on a leave of absence for health reasons, was scheduled to join Murdoch in an event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
According to CNET, Cue played prominent roles in Apple’s development of the iTunes Store and App Store, and he is focused on the future of applications on the iPad.
The upcoming iPad newspaper “The Daily,” which is being produced by Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corp., will not be released in 2010. News Corp. president and COO Chase Carey revealed the news at the UBS Media and Communications conference in New York.
Carey stopped short of actually announcing the product, news of which has leaked out over the past few weeks, but he did acknowledge that the company was excited about it.
“It is a small bet, it doesn’t require a lot of capital,” Carey said.
The new security measures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration dominated the list of news links shared by bloggers during the week of Nov. 22-26, while Mashable accounted for four of the five most-Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a clip of a collision during an AC Milan soccer match, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
A total of 54 percent of news links shared by bloggers were related to the controversy over the TSA measures — don’t touch my junk, bro — and it was followed by: Formula 1 racing, at 18 percent; British police, at 13 percent; a column in The Washington Post by former President Jimmy Carter about how the United States should handle relations with North Korea, at 4 percent; and also at 4 percent, news that Velma Hart — the woman who gained national attention at a September forum for telling President Barack Obama that she was exhausted defending him — lost her job due to financial cutbacks at the nonprofit organization where she worked.
The TSA brouhaha was the only non-Mashable entry in the top five news links shared by Twitter, coming in fourth at 9 percent. The most-Tweeted link was a report from the social-media news blog about ways people can use social media to enhance events and conferences, at 16 percent. It was followed by: a list of iPhone camera accessories, at 13 percent; a report on Rupert Murdoch‘s The Daily iPad-only news publication, at 12 percent; and, in fifth place, at 7 percent, two Twitter stories — one on its analytics service, and the other an interview with creative director Doug Bowman.
The AC Milan crash was followed on the list of most-viewed news and politics videos on YouTube by: an animated poke at the TSA controversy by Taiwan-based Next Media Animation; pundits on Fox News Watch sharing jokes about Sarah Palin‘s new TV show during a commercial break; the Nov. 16 installment of The Philip DeFranco Show; and a video from comedy group Die Aussenseiter.
Whatever else you think of him, Rupert Murdoch has a vision for the future of news. While other news outlets are struggling to balance their traditional newsrooms with a Twitter, Facebook and YouTube presence, Murdoch’s media holdings are taking the lead in digital media innovation – illustrated by the soon-to-be-launched, tablet-only newspaper called The Daily.
On this afternoon’s News Corp. earnings call CEO Rupert Murdoch discussed the Apple iPad when talking about where the future of media is heading.
“There will be other imitators, but I believe that is a game-changer,” Murdoch said.
He predicted that there will be “100′s of millions of these devices” in consumer hands throughout the world within a few years.
“As they develop technologically, we have to develop our methods,” he added. When pressed if that meant creating a seperate editorial team which would create content for tablets, News Corp. COO Chase Carey dodged the question.
What is the potential of the tablet computer? Murdoch says it will have “young people reading newspapers, different-looking, new types of newspapers.”
Wow. Advertising for CNN is absolutely dominating the business section of the New York Post‘s website today. Take a look at a screengrab below.
Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the Post and Fox News, cannot be pleased about this. Then again, it is CNN paying him for advertising. So maybe he is.
If there is one takeaway from this year’s Cable Show, it is this: television and media execs cannot get enough Apple.
Of course, the iPhone is so 2008, this year it is all about the iPad.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s Paul Bond has a good roundup of media execs salivating over the thin, sexy Apple device, including bigwigs like News Corp. COO Chase Carey and Disney-ABC digital chief Albert Cheng. We already saw what Comcast CEO Brian Roberts did when he got his hands on one of those glass and aluminum tablets.
The iPad, answered Carey, the News Corp. COO and deputy chairman, “actually has a chance to be a transforming event.” And his unprompted praise for Apple’s tablet computer was just getting started.
“That device really gives you a richer media experience,” he said. “You can start to envision how you create a really appealing experience for a consumer in a mobile environment.”
Totally Chase, totally. The next step: teach your boss Rupert Murdoch how to use one of these suckers. And send us the video.
Last night digital news publication The Fiscal Times celebrated its official launch at The Paley Center for Media in New York City. The main event was a conversation between CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo and Pete Peterson, the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce who now runs the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Peterson’s foundation, which aims to draw awareness to the U.S. debt crisis, is funding the The Fiscal Times, which is branding itself as “The source for All Things Fiscal.”
The event kicked off on a lighthearted note, with Bartiromo introducing Peterson and kissing him on the cheek, the billionaire responding with a deadpan “I have been wanting to do that for a long time,” to laughs and applause from the crowd, before adding “I am glad you didn’t mention that I can’t use a computer.”
Fiscal Times editor-in-chief Jackie Leo told WebNewser that issues like the debt and finance are important to every American, the challenge is making it accessible to ordinary people…
