Murdoch plans digital-only paid newspaper for tablets and phones

We can’t honestly say whether The Wall Street Journal ’s laggy iPad rendition was a success at $17.29 per month , but either way Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is gearing up for another try at this whole digital news thing. The LA Times reports that Murdoch is planning an entirely new national publication for the iPad and other devices — in other words, not just a print-to-digital conversion this time. “Unlike News Corp.’s business-centric Wall Street Journal, the new digital newspaper would target a more general readership, offering short, snappy stories that could be digested quickly,” writes the Times , adding that sources say the digital paper could launch by the end of the year.

Murdoch confirms WSJ coming to iPad, device kept ‘under padlock and key’

It only came at the tail end of an announcement of a new New York metro section for The Wall Street Journal , but Rupert Murdoch has finally confirmed that the paper will indeed be heading to the iPad. The really interesting bit, however, is that not only is the company now being allowed to work on an iPad, but that Murdoch says it’s kept “under padlock and key,” and that “the key is turned by Apple every night” — a bit of hyperbole, maybe, but then again, maybe not. In other newspapers-going-digital news, Murdoch also said that the WSJ would be heading to half a dozen or more other devices within a year, although he didn’t name any specific devices.

Rupert Murdoch staying out of the e-reader business, Red Eye sadly still on the air

With the news biz in obvious (and some might say terminal) disarray, of course folks in the business will be looking for ways to stay afloat in the age of the e-reader — and it’s long been rumored that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is looking to launch a device of its own (if by “long” you mean ” since early April or thereabouts”).

Report: Rupert Murdoch forms global team, looks into hardware for content revenue stream

In case you didn’t think Rupert Murdoch was serious about e-book readers before, The Daily Beast has it from its sources that the News Corp mogul has assembled a global team, with members hailing form London, New York, and Sydney, to find some way to better monetize / charge for online content. Unsurprisingly, that leads to hardware and possibly creating a more “user-friendly way” to deliver content that’ll incentivize consumers to pay — Kindle does it, Hearst wants to do it, so why not the world’s biggest media conglomerate? As for the mythical device itself, let’s recap what we’ve heard so far, from the man himself: a bigger screen than Amazon’s now-antiquated models, a four-color pallette, and”you can get everything there.” Now how about putting a name to the manufacturer, hm?

Rupert Murdoch wants in on the e-book action

Apparently News Corp. chairman and multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch likes the Kindle . He likes it so much that while he’s not trying to buy the company, he is instead trying to buy any competition that could undermine it and perhaps ultimately send it into financial ruin.

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