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Platform profile: Factiva, the News Corp-owned search engine that pays...
Dow Jones subsidiary Factiva is a search engine that pays – but only if you’re in the club. The subscription-access archive, which launched in 1999 as a partnership between Dow Jones and Reuters,...
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Ranked: The best newsbrands at converting readers to paying subscribers
A new Press Gazette ranking reveals the leading subscription newsbrands with the highest ratio of digital subscribers to online audience. Among the brands included in our list, sports news site The...
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Gender pay gap at UK media companies narrows to 12%
Men were paid more on average than women at all but two of the 33 media companies that have submitted their gender pay gap figures for 2022. The Press Association reported gender balance on both mean...
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News Corp touts growth of Dow Jones as wider revenues drop
Dow Jones has doubled its profitability over the past four years, new financial results for parent company News Corp show. But the rest of News Corp, which includes the New York Post, News UK and News...
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Murdoch says son Lachlan ‘believes in social purpose of journalism’ as he...
Rupert Murdoch has said that his son and successor Lachlan Murdoch is “a believer in the social purpose of journalism” as he handed over to News Corp’s new sole chair. The elder Murdoch was speaking...
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Uncertain times have been good for Dow Jones, a rare 2023 publishing success...
This year has been a torrid one for most US and UK news publishers – but not for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. News Corp’s US financial news division has just reported the best quarter...
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Podcast 61: Why bad news can be good for business publishers with Dow Jones...
Dow Jones chief executive and Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour spoke to Press Gazette about how the financial news division of News Corp just managed to achieve its most profitable quarter...
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More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
Three-quarters of the UK’s biggest media organisations increased the percentage of women in their top teams in the past year. Of 34 media organisations big enough to be required to report gender pay...
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Former Dow Jones membership chief Suzi Watford joins Washington Post
Suzi Watford, the former chief membership officer of Dow Jones and current Sirius XM chief growth officer, is moving to The Washington Post to take up the newly-created post of chief strategy officer....
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Dow Jones, NYT, Dotdash Meredith and Informa confound news business doomsters
Headlines like this in the FT – “Is AI about to kill what’s left of journalism?” – contribute to an atmosphere of gloom around the prospects for the news industry. But this week there were multiple...
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Bankers allowed to sue Dow Jones under GDPR over ‘missing $1bn’ article
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal has failed in its bid to dismiss a data protection lawsuit it claimed was being “brought under a false flag to avoid the rules that apply to defamation...
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News Corp has begun legal moves against ‘AI aggressors’, CEO reveals
News Corp has begun taking “legal steps” against unspecified “AI aggressors”, chief executive Robert Thomson revealed as the company published its full-year results for 2023/24. The Sun, Times, New...
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News Corp seeks massive damages from AI firm Perplexity for stealing content
News Corp subsidiaries Dow Jones and NYP Holdings have filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against artificial intelligence-powered search engine Perplexity, demanding their content is...
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News Corp adds Google-powered AI summaries to Factiva search results
News Corp-owned business intelligence search engine Factiva is adding generative AI summaries to its search results. The news database, which is part of Dow Jones, has deployed Google’s Gemini...
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Diversify or die? 23 media leaders reveal how to make news pay in 2025
Twenty-three media leaders representing some of the biggest names in US and UK publishing have shared their insight into the key news revenue trends for 2025. With big names like Estates Gazette,...
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