Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 12:53 pm PT
Remember when the show couldn’t figure out what to do when Lazy Sunday became a YouTube hit? Now it’s using the Web to show what didn’t even get to TV.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 25 at 8:48 am PT
How to negotiate, Charlie Ergen-style. Threaten, kind of credibly, to blow everything up.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 23 at 7:06 am PT
The pitch: Now publishers can manage mobile ads in “real time.”
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Cassell Bryan-Low and Paul Sonne, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 15 at 4:02 am PT
Prosecutors in the U.K. charged the former head of News Corp.’s British newspaper unit, Rebekah Brooks, with conspiring to obstruct justice, marking the first charges filed in a wide-ranging criminal investigation into wrongdoing at the U.S. media company’s British tabloids.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 13 at 4:08 pm PT
Want to figure out what Yahoo’s new boss wants to do with the company? Look back at what he did last year.
Kara Swisher in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT
The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 11 at 7:19 am PT
YouTube is trying to convince advertisers to spend big dollars on its upgraded content. They seem receptive.
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John Jannarone, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 9 at 2:35 pm PT
News Corp. said net income rose 47 percent in the quarter ended March 31 thanks to growth at its cable networks. The media conglomerate also said it doubled the size of its share-buyback program to $10 billion.
Kara Swisher in News on May 7 at 1:37 pm PT
There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
