We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a new national U.S. news title via iPad and mobile phone apps.

In recent weeks, eager, pessimistic analyses have deployed various mathematical alchemies to declare News International’s new online strategy already a failure. But Rupert Murdoch is having none of it…

News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) blamed “lower search and advertising revenues at MySpace” for higher Q4 and full-year operating losses in its digital media group - but Rupert Murdoch says he’s sticking with the social network for now.

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q310	Net Inc. vs Q310
News Corp	Release		6%	531%

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Times Newspapers in the UK is giving its early iPad customers a free one-month subscription for the second time in as many months, in an attempt to migrate readers to a more stable version of the app.

The Times’ paid model is just two weeks old but, still, a number of stats came through this weekend - none of them from the horse’s mouth… First, the meat - some potentially significant first numbers on how successful the paper’s paid websites have been in their first two weeks.…

Publishers across the world will be keenly scrutinizing the response to The Times’ freshly erected paywall. Tired of giving its expensively acquired content away for free online, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has decided that users must now pay for it. Are paywalls the answer? They may be an answer —…

On the day The Times and Sunday Times start requiring payments for their new websites, The Guardian has devoted its top above-the-fold promo strap, usually taken by teasing its own features inside, to wryly differentiating itself from News International’s papers…

We’ve covered every step in Times Newspapers’ conversion to paid websites - the initial plan, the confirmation, the blocking of stories from search engines and the launch in May of the two new websites behind a registration wall on a free preview basis. There’s really little left to add… Except…

The Times’ and Sunday Times’ share of UK newspaper web visits nearly halved from 4.37 percent to 2.67 percent in the month since it introduced new sites with a registration wall, according to Hitwise, which monitors the clicks of eight million UK users. But it has now fallen to 1.81…

When The Times debuted its £9.99-a-month iPad edition in May, it launched without any built-in way for readers to pay again for a second month. That risks leaving many readers out there with old Times editions on their iPad - and having to go back to iTunes Store for the…

News Corp.‘s UK daily tabloid has followed The Times to Apple’s tablet, with an app edition that, at £4.99 a month, is half as much as its serious stablemate. Renewing via iOS’ recurring subscription, the price equates to £0.20 a day, £0.10 cheaper than in print, and includes two user…

It may not qualify as irony but it is a lovely coincidence: the same week that The Times and The Sunday Times go behind a paywall, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is at a Southern California resort celebrating a franchise that so far doesn’t include subscriptions…

The Times joined the Financial Times as the only national UK newspaper with a news app for iPad’s international launch Friday morning. Yes, it’s pay-for, but there’s an entirely different pricepoint from the new websites, which will soon charge £1 a day, £2 a week or free with print… It’s…

The Times and Sunday Times’ upcoming paid sites will not allow their articles to appear in search engines like Google (NSDQ: GOOG). That was one nugget gleaned during a preview of the attractive forthcoming relaunches Monday night. Times Online will relaunch as separate entities “imminently” has relaunched as two separate…

His father took a seat - next to News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her new iPad - to hear News Corp (NYSE: NWS) EMEA CEO James Murdoch broaden the pay-for-news debate in to a grand call to salvage the sustainability of all cultural industries, during a lecture in London.…

News Corp.‘s Europe, Middle East and Asia CEO James Murdoch on Thursday gave a speech to inaugurate University College London’s new Centre for Digital Humanities. The key themes - after three centuries, copyright is more important than ever because cultural industries need their intellectual property protected. Transcript below; more follows…

The bets so far on how Rupert Murdoch’s Times Online in the UK will fare when it starts charging... —Times editor James Harding reckons on losing “plenty” of users.—Sunday Times ed John Witherow expects a drop-off of over 90 percent.—Our own PCUK/Harris poll of news website users suggests only five…

Did The Sunday Times’ editor, in the UK, just admit his website’s about to lose nine tenths of its readers once charges are introduced? From a taping of BBC Radio 4’s upcoming Media Show: Press Gazette: “(John) Witherow said ‘the vast majority of readers’ - perhaps more than 90 percent…

London-based The Times’ Times Online is set to divide in two, perhaps next week, before going behind the first of Rupert Murdoch’s big consumer news paywalls in June. So what exactly will your £1 a day, £2 a week or annual newspaper subscription buy you on the new TheTimes.co.uk and…