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Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US

Posted by timothy on from the adding-dot-com-works-for-me dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that Rupert Murdoch plans to launch a digital newspaper in the US geared specifically to younger readers and to digital outlets such as the iPad and mobile phones. The paper, as yet unnamed, will pool the huge editorial muscle of Murdoch's combined holdings within News Corporation, which include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the financial wire service Dow Jones, as well as his newspapers in the UK and Australia. Earlier this month, Murdoch said of the iPad: 'It's a real game-changer in the presentation of news,' adding 'We'll have young people reading newspapers.'"

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  1. It IS a game-changer by dnaumov · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The iPad got me back into reading books. For the past 15 years, I've been reading perhaps 1 book every 2-3 years. In the past 2 months of owning an iPad, I've already read 7 and my interest is only growing. The convinience is killer. I have no interest whatsoever in traditional print media, be it magazines or books and reading either of them off a laptop or LCD monitor of a desktop is inconvinient and plain retarded. My iPad 3G however, now goes along with me basically anywhere. the only inconvinience being unsuitability for use in direct sunlight.

  2. This is so wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet America Sugar Daddy take money off you!