News Corp, Apple building tablet-only iPad newspaper - rumor
Media giant News Corp may be working directly with Apple to build an all-new newspaper built specifically for the iPad, set to launch in the coming months at a cost of 99 cents per week.
According to high-end women's fashion journal Women's Wear Daily, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs have worked together closely on the project, which will be called The Daily. It said that Jobs and Murdoch could appear onstage together to unveil the new product.
But The Guardian in the U.K. went one step further, and said that the tablet-only project will be a joint effort between News Corp and Apple. The product, which will not have a print edition or web edition, will allegedly be developed with assistance from Apple engineers.
However, the product will not be iPad-only, the reports said. News Corp's The Daily will reportedly be available for other tablet devices, though Murdoch is said to believe the iPad will be a "game changer," as the device most families use to get their news and information.
The tablet publication will reportedly be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalists have been hired. The product could be announced alongside a rumored newspaper subscription plan Apple is said to be working on.
Apple is also rumored to be creating a new standalone application that will serve as a digital newsstand for magazines and newspapers. Like iBooks makes books available through a separate application, Apple's newsstand will reportedly be created specifically for newspapers and magazines.
A News Corp executive recently confirmed that the company is working on an iPad specific publication set to launch in the U.S. in the coming months. The newspaper will reportedly initially be a U.S.-only product.
According to high-end women's fashion journal Women's Wear Daily, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs have worked together closely on the project, which will be called The Daily. It said that Jobs and Murdoch could appear onstage together to unveil the new product.
But The Guardian in the U.K. went one step further, and said that the tablet-only project will be a joint effort between News Corp and Apple. The product, which will not have a print edition or web edition, will allegedly be developed with assistance from Apple engineers.
However, the product will not be iPad-only, the reports said. News Corp's The Daily will reportedly be available for other tablet devices, though Murdoch is said to believe the iPad will be a "game changer," as the device most families use to get their news and information.
The tablet publication will reportedly be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalists have been hired. The product could be announced alongside a rumored newspaper subscription plan Apple is said to be working on.
Apple is also rumored to be creating a new standalone application that will serve as a digital newsstand for magazines and newspapers. Like iBooks makes books available through a separate application, Apple's newsstand will reportedly be created specifically for newspapers and magazines.
A News Corp executive recently confirmed that the company is working on an iPad specific publication set to launch in the U.S. in the coming months. The newspaper will reportedly initially be a U.S.-only product.
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Strange bedfellows...
news corp ceo rupert murdoch and apple chief executive steve jobs have worked together closely on the project...
Newspapers and the people who work on them deserve to be paid, but if all news and opinion is locked to paid subscriptions and access only via iPad, the Unemployed and the poor have no access to information, current events, or how government and big corporations are screwing around with our lives. You control Freedom of the Press and you take away our rights to be free.
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Strange bedfellows...
Indeed.
I'd never subscribe to a Newscorp product, but I would definitely consider something more reputable like say, the NYT, NPR/PBS, CSM, BBC etc.
Bias much? And I think you're confused... wasn't Cheney supposed to be Palpatine? Don't you hate it when you get your own propaganda all twisted up in a bunch?
To be more effective in your name calling, Jabba, you might consider reading a little more of something new, and a little less of what you've been looking at. I don't know if you've heard, but Team Donk isn't exactly knocking them outta the park, so your rhetoric is ringing a bit hollow.
Rather than imagined conspiracies and shadows, perhaps the super obvious pairing of biggest computer company with the biggest news company is all that's going on here? Duh. It's not like any Bothans were killed to bring you this information.
How does a Beatles-loving, LSD dropping, hippie-wannabe get all mixed up with Rupert Palpatine? While I love the idea of an inexpensive daily "newspaper" that is created specifically for the iPad, taking full advantage of everything the iPad can do, I have NO desire to use my iPad as a right-wing propaganda delivery mechanism.[/QUOTE
Bias much? And I think you're confused... wasn't Cheney supposed to be Palpatine? Don't you hate it when you get your own propaganda all twisted up in a bunch?
To be more effective in your name calling, Jabba, you might consider reading a little more of something new, and a little less of what you've been looking at. I don't know if you've heard, but Team Donk isn't exactly knocking them outta the park, so your rhetoric is ringing a bit hollow.
Rather than imagined conspiracies and shadows, perhaps the super obvious pairing of biggest computer company with the biggest news company is all that's going on here? Duh. It's not like any Bothans were killed to bring you this information.
Yes, its all Falr and balanced - no bias! just lap up whatever fox news feeds you. Man you are an ignorant sponge!
And just to make sure that new managing editor Beck keeps it that way, Rupert said that the editorial board will be comprised of Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly and Palin.
Apple is also rumored to be creating a new standalone application that will serve as a digital newsstand for magazines and newspapers. Like iBooks makes books available through a separate application, Apple's newsstand will reportedly be created specifically for newspapers and magazines.
Will it be for magazines and newspapers? If it will, then what will it be called? If they call it 'Reader', for example, people will confuse it with a book reader. iNews name would suggest no magazines.
A name like Newsstand might work. Not iNewsstand, gawd.
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Long term should involve multiple publications / companies.
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Strange bedfellows...
What's so strange. Both are liberal democrats who supported obama.
Rather than imagined conspiracies and shadows, perhaps the super obvious pairing of biggest computer company with the biggest news company is all that's going on here? Duh. It's not like any Bothans were killed to bring you this information.
A first hint of sanity in what promises to be an insane thread. All you knee-jerk alarmists, calm down. Yes, Fox News is our number one pollution problem right now, but if you had a chance to work with and possibly influence Rupert Murdoch, would you not jump at the chance?
And few people in the world aside from Steve Jobs have the intellect and force of accomplishment to be up to the task.
Blastdoor: 'wannabe hippie' indeed. Since when is he wannabe anything? If he wanted to drop out like the rest of us did, I'm sure he would have managed to. He's clearly on a mission to get something good done in the world. This may be part of the plan.
What's so strange. Both are liberal democrats who supported obama.
Oh, really?
Apple teaming up with murdoch! what a tragedy. We will now have billo the clown hannity and coulter, fox news all ramned down our thoats vis apple. Is there no escape. lets hope apples competitors get their products up and running asap. Apple, you have just lost a customer.
I concur, rutts... the walled garden is bad enough, but if they're now going to switch to a diet of fascist right-wing tinfoil-hat-wearing traitorous, obstructionist propaganda supplied by the gossip-rag-dealing foreign agent that turned one of the most-respected newspapers in the country into the Wall Street Urinal, I will never buy another Apple product. Ever.
Does anyone think that Apple will dismiss or ignore the right-wing market base because people in that base think different from Jobs or most folks at Apple? Their money is as green as that of the most liberal technocrats in Silicon Valley or the high-browed academicians in Boston.
Apple's insistence on a squeaky clean image for its App Store and corporate governance in general is a good example of Apple courting the business of the conservative base with a zeal. This is a business. Corporations go to where the money is.
Jobs and Murdoch may view each other as "loons" privately, but they can't deny the success of each other either and probably do share great deal of mutual respect and admiration in their respective fields. Unlike our government with its endless partisan bickering, effective businesses hurdle together and get things done.