E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The first session of the World Newspaper Congress kicked off yesterday with talk of perhaps the biggest ongoing conversation amongst the media around the world: how to pay for the digital content the news industry creates.Les Hinton, CEO of Dow...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Les Hinton, now departed for Dow Jones, would never have allowed the paper to make such intemperate attacks on Gordom Brown Two little words sum up what may be one big problem. Those words are "Les" and "Hinton". Quiet, shrewd Les, now running Dow Jones for Rupert Murdoch in New York, used to be top dog in Wapping. He didn't let his ego get in the way. He let Rupert...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Roughly 30,000 users subscribe the Wall Street Journal Kindle Edition, Dow Jones head Les Hinton told the Paley Center conference Rafat is attending this morning—great for a “primitive device.” Put that way, it suggests the potential for a nice income as devices get more sophisticated and and more models with quick delivery are in use. But how much is it worth now to Dow Jones?...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Roy, NDTV India: 70 news channels is a bit much for any country; that’s us. —Les Hinton, CEO, Dow Jones: 30K people have subscribed to WSJ on Kindle…for a primitive device that’s great. —David Carr, media columnist for NYT: after watching first 5 mins of watching Al Jazeera Engish: hey, it is really good. —Jeff Zucker: NBC Universal has nothing to do...
pluGGd.in (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
At the World Newspaper Congress at Hyderabad this week Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton ?took on Google and used some strong language to stir things up. He called Google a digtial vampire and a parasite. He goes on to further bash the internet content Kleptomaniacs whose business model depends on purloining the expensive journalism of mainstream media. » Join our Google group | » Do check...
The Wire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
News Corporation’s offensive against Google keeps growing in scale and intensity. Already, the aggro feels much more significant than anything Murdoch has doled out to the BBC in the past. This week, the sabre-rattling reached new heights, with Murdoch himself, Les Hinton and Robert Thomson all participating in assaults. So far, News Corporation executives have delivered [...]
Media: Organ Grinder | guardian.co. (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
'News is a business and we should not be afraid to say it', proclaims News Corp's Les Hinton to newspaper congress When you hear the line "beware of geeks bearing gifts" you know you are listening to the latest iteration of News Corp's attack on free content on the web. This aphorism was delivered today by Les Hinton, the chief executive of Wall Street Journal publisher and...
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Jeff Jarvis submits: In 2005, Rupert Murdoch gave a rousing speech to the American Society of Newspapers Editors calling on them to listen to digital natives. This Monday, his deputy, Les Hinton, gave a speech to the World Association of Newspapers in India warning them to beware geeks bearing gifts. Murdoch in 2005 : Complete Story »
Media Week (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
LONDON - Newspaper publishers struggling to meet the financial challenges in the digital age only have themselves to blame, according to Les Hinton, chief executive of News Corporation's Dow Jones today.
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones ( NYSE: NWS ) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against “geeks bearing gifts”, “false gospel of the Web” and “out & out theives on the Internet.” It is a familiar cry, one spitted...
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones ( NYSE: NWS ) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against “geeks bearing gifts”, “false gospel of the Web” and “out & out theives on the Internet.” It is a familiar cry, one spitted...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Murdoch Lieutenant Attacks Free Content ( Guardian ) "We were promised that eyeballs meant advertising, clicks meant cash," said Les Hinton, the chief executive of News Corp subsidiary Dow Jones, at the first session of the WAN-IFRA World Congress of Newspapers in Hyderabad. "Free costs too much. News is a business...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
paidContent.org "I guess a lot of newspaper people were taken in by the game-changing gospel of the Internet age," Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton said at the World Newspaper Congress. "It was a new dawn, we were told. A new epoch, a new paradigm. And we just didn't get it. Like an over-eager middle-aged dad, desperate to look cool, we ended up dancing obediently to other people's tunes....
BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Tweet: Compare/contrast Rupert Murdoch on the internet (and me) then and now. In 2005, Rupert Murdoch gave a rousing speech to the American Society of Newspapers Editors calling on them to listen to digital natives. Yesterday, his deputy, Les Hinton, gave a speech to the World Association of Newspapers in India warning them to beware geeks [...]
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... rejected King's complaint. Any surprise? As King himself says, the chairman at the time was Les Hinton, Coulson's boss.
