26 posts and columns on Russell Adams

News Corp. in Talks to Hire Bloomberg Executive

in Voices on January 28 at 8:00 am PT

News Corp. is in serious talks to hire former Bloomberg LP chief executive Lex Fenwick to be the new chief of Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with the matter.

Mark and Don: More Than Just Facebook Friends

in Voices on January 5 at 5:30 am PT

Donald Graham spends long stretches on Facebook, sharing with 4,888 friends his interest in tattoo removal, a love of the Washington Redskins and his favorite Muppets song, “Mahna Mahna.”

Digitas CEO Laura Lang to Be Named Chief of Time Inc.

in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:34 am PT

Time Warner Inc. has picked Laura Lang, chief executive of the digital-ad firm Digitas, to run its Time Inc. magazine-publishing division, according to people familiar with the matter.

Murdochs Are Re-Elected Amid Protest

in News on October 22, 2011 at 8:56 am PT

News Corp.’s board and management “will stop at nothing to get to the bottom” of a phone hacking scandal at the company’s U.K. newspaper unit “and put it right,” Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, told shareholders Friday.

New York Times Posts Profit

in Media on October 20, 2011 at 1:32 pm PT

Cost-cutting helped New York Times Co. swing to a better-than-expected third-quarter profit from a year-earlier loss, despite a deteriorating market for print advertising.

Scandal Clouds James Murdoch’s Path

in Media on September 13, 2011 at 11:12 pm PT

Rupert Murdoch has long said he wants one of his children to succeed him. The scandal at News Corp. has threatened that prospect.

Murdoch Selects His Team Carefully

in Media on July 18, 2011 at 9:58 pm PT

With two top executives departed and the political stakes of every move at an all-time high, News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch has turned to an inner circle of advisers who share one trait: distance from the events now haunting the company.

News Corp. Weighs Next Steps

in Media on July 12, 2011 at 10:11 pm PT

Rupert Murdoch and his tight-knit group of advisers at News Corp. have put a variety of strategic options on the table as they attempt to stem the fallout from a scandal and map out a future for their businesses, according to people familiar with the situation.

Many Formats, One Price

in Media on May 16, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Magazine and newspaper publishers are reorienting themselves around a business model that has taken hold in other media: the bundle. The result is a new ecosystem of pricing that turns aspects of the old model upside down. For many years, publications charged for print and gave away their digital content free.

Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple

in Voices on May 1, 2011 at 10:49 pm PT

Time Inc., the country’s largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time’s contention that it’s business-as-usual after the ouster of its chief executive.

Hearst Bids for Lagardère Magazines

in News, January 31, 2011 at 8:10 am PT

Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple

in News, January 3, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Newsweek, Daily Beast to Merge

in News, November 11, 2010 at 5:56 pm PT

Strong Personalities Color Talks Between Newsweek, Daily Beast

in News, October 11, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

News Outlets Circle Tablet

in News, October 8, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

New York Times Backs News-Aggregation Software Company

in News, September 29, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Newsweek Hires Former Gawker Editor-in-Chief Snyder

in News, April 21, 2010 at 2:13 pm PT

Some Publishers Are Wary of Sales on iTunes

in News, April 5, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Condé Nast’s Plans for iPad Ads Become Clearer

in News, April 2, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

AP Stories Reappear on Google News

in News, February 9, 2010 at 11:19 pm PT

Times Publisher Won’t Attend Apple Tablet Unveiling

in News, January 21, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Vogue Sees Web Lessons in Obama's Campaign

in News, November 24, 2009 at 12:30 am PT

Washington Post Revamps Mobile Strategy

in News, July 29, 2009 at 11:13 am PT

Rolling Stone's Take on Guitar Hero

in News, May 19, 2009 at 8:06 am PT