Just a fortnight after raising its cover price in London and the south east, The Sun is bringing it back down again, in a new round of price tinkering that…

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-- News International: More fall-out from the Boston Consulting Group report that advised axing the magazine unit and introducing a single management layer - The Sun and Times publisher is…

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More official powers for News Corp (NYSE: NWS) scion James Murdoch… after gaining hold of operations in Europe and Asia last December, he has been named the president of Sky…

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James Murdoch has, as expected, created a chief operating officer role for News International as part of a “streamlining” restructure brought about in response to a review commissioned from the…

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News International will merge the back office operations of its News Group titles, according to indications of what will be contained in Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) streamlining review of the…

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-- News Magazines: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is closing its News Magazines unit, which publishes the LoveIt women’s mag and BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) customers’ SkyMag, after losing almost £10 million…

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Times Online has switched on the 200-year digital archive we revealed in May that it would launch. Times Archive includes more than 20 million searchable newspaper clippings going back to…

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The Murdochisation of the Wall Street Journal is complete: publisher Robert Thomson is ceding that role to Dow Jones CEO and former News International boss Les Hinton and is switching…

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This’ll ruffle some feathers amongst rival editors. ComScore claims Sun Online is the UK’s most popular news website, with 4.29 million monthly unique users in March - ahead of Guardian.co.uk…

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-- MSN: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has added Messenger TV to its Windows Live Messenger in 20 countries, including this one, allowing IM users to simultaneously watch and share programming from…

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News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is planning closer integration between its new Wall Street Journal website and its existing News International publications in the UK. Times Online EIC Anne Spackman told…

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Catching up on news from the Bank Holiday weekend and the end of last week… -- MySpace: The social net has unveiled a UK version of its Scene Junkie entertainment…

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Times Online has set up an advertising office in New York and will work with News Corp’s recently acquired Wall Street Journal website to help “monetise” its US readership, reports…

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Suddenly, the economics of free don’t look so rosy. Thelondonpaper, the freesheet Rupert Murdoch’s News International started in 2006, made £8 million revenue in its first year - but lost…

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-- Mail: Mail Online is beta testing a re-design for its Daily and Sunday print titles. The new site’s chunky homepage is busier than even the new-look Guardian.co.uk‘s front. Beta.dailymail.co.uk…

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The Propertyfinder home search site is buying HotProperty.co.uk operator Sherlock Publications for £5.6 million, uniting the two under the growing real estate interest in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NYSE: NWS)…

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City University electronic publishing academic Neil Thurman presented a paper on online news video at the ninth International Symposium on Online Journalism in Texas at the weekend. Though previous papers…

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The News Of The World has been forced to remove from its website a story that made lurid allegations about Derby County manager Paul Jewell’s private life. The story was…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) won the rights to show Champions League matches on internet and mobile until 2012, along with the majority of TV matches (release). The network coughed up a…

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It seems the days of premium subscription content are not fully over. The News Of The World newspaper this Sunday launches Fabulous Diets, a weight-loss site featuring meal plans and…

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For years, millions of expectant web users have hit up MySpace.co.uk, only to find a site adorned with ads and unrelated to the social network. But now Stockport-based Total Web…

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Times Online is in hot water with social media fans for secretly “spamming” dozens of said sites with links to the online newspaper. Blogger Andy Baio uncovered rafts of story…

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Some blunt thoughts from The Sun editor Rebekah Wade on Sun Online‘s contribution to the paper’s overall fortune. “We have a set of projections (for web growth) and sets of…

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UK real estate portal Propertyfinder.com has appointed former MSN UK MD Gillian Kent as its new CEO. In a statement, Kent said that the UK property web site market was…

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The Sun is likely to introduce a user-generated content website inviting women to upload video auditions to become Page 3 girls. Built by the paper’s online video player vendor Roo,…

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