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Now on Both Sides of the Atlantic: The Murdochian Candidates
Chaos reigns, both in London and Gotham. In the shadows, the puppet-maker now works around the clock, enticed by events unfolding beyond even his great powers. Undaunted by what might have been an...
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Newsonomics: As Fox’s Dr. Frankenstein Exits Right, the Murdochs Are Left to...
If the ascendance of Donald Trump is showbiz, the descent of Roger Ailes can only be described as opera. Trump and Ailes should go down into history together, and July 21, 2016 will mark it. Just hours...
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Trump, Murdoch, Ailes: A Trifecta of Woe, By The Numbers
They’ve built their business lives on numbers, and this week’s numbers measure the collective, interwoven fates of Donald Trump, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Toting up those woes, the trio’s many...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Don’t Be Fooled Into Expecting a New Fox News
O’Reilly’s banished. Ailes is plotting something somewhere. And Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson enjoy, or plan to, the air elsewhere. It must be time to reposition Fox News, right? Why, it only makes...
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Newsonomics: Can A Master Blacklist Choke Off Fake News’ Money Supply?
For the last few weeks, it’s looked like fake news has spawned its own opposition industry. Money to fight the now-apparent-to-all evil has poured out of foundation coffers faster than Sean Spicer...
View ArticleLipstick On A Fox, The Bill Shine Shake-Up and Myth Of The Sons
Can you put lipstick on a Fox? That’s just one of our immediate questions as time caught up with Bill Shine, long-time Roger Ailes lieutenant. Shine followed Bill O’Reilly out the door on Monday, just...
View ArticleCan Tony Haile’s Scroll Create A Large New Market For Paid News?
Tony Haile has a big idea. It’s his second big idea, but he believes it will be bigger than the first one. The 40-year-old founder of Chartbeat Inc., one of the established standards in analytics in...
View Article‘Whole New World’ for Publishers as Google Finally Scraps First Click Free
Google’s decade-plus First Click Free program sounded innocuous enough. In the Alphabet Inc. unit’s perpetual effort to keep the open web free, Google promised a search throughway to news pages. If...
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Newsonomics: A Q & A With NYT’s Mark Thompson 2020, A Half Billion In Digital...
Five years is a long time, especially in the media business. It was five years ago this week that Mark Thompson took on the top job at The New York Times Company. It was an enterprise still wobbling...
View ArticleThe DEAL Week That Was: Making Sense Of Fox, Time Inc., Buzzfeed, Mashable,...
It was a day to remember. Media consolidation finally saw its big day in the news, Thursday, Nov. 16, as so many long-running storylines began to reach their climaxes. Fueled by the Koch brothers’...
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