News Corp. Considering New Digital News Venture

By Andrew Gauthier 

Media Money

News Corp is seriously evaluating a move that would transform the digital news business.

Sources close to the company tell me that CEO Rupert Murdoch is considering creating a new purely digital news venture and would be available through subscription on devices like the iPad.

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The news play under consideration would aim to redefine how news is consumed in the digital space with an entirely new interactive format. It would neither be a newspaper nor a web site and it would not be derivative of one of News Corp’s existing papers. More…

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