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The new Wall Street Journal debuts today. WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch has redesigned it to expand its "traditional, pin-striped base," according to Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek reporter. Murdoch still believes that "newspapers are the most influential media for shaping the public discourse, even in this new-media century."

The new Journal will feature:
- An increased focus on politics, international news, culture, and sports.
- A refocused front page.
- A relaunch of the A section that will cover general news.
- Marketplace, the second section, which will cover corporate America.
- Money and Investing, the third section, which will continue to report news of financial markets and investing.
- A weekly sports page.
- An additional op-ed page, so that it has 3 pages instead of 2.

Also, a culture section is being developed in the Journal's weekend edition for the fall.

The redesign of the paper is also Murdoch's challenge to The New York Times.

But many media and communication experts argue that the Journal will not be a threat to the Times even with all the changes; in fact, the changes may damage the Journal brand.

"Turning a paper into an old-fashioned variety show--we have a little of everything--I don't think is the route to success," said a former senior Dow Jones executive. "The risk you run is that you are not best at anything." 

Arthur Siskind, senior adviser to Murdoch, remarked that "the need to bolster and broaden the Journal's production and delivery is one reason [Murdoch's] battle with the Times will have to unfold gradually." Murdoch is in talks for local newspaper publishers to print the Journal, so the paper can be printed earlier and story deadlines can be extended.

Even so, the Times has faced some difficulties. Advertising has fallen almost 11%, (Read more at our sister blog SFN) "the sharpest drop in memory," the Times wrote. While it is cutting its staff by 100 (Read more at SFN), Murdoch has been spending money on WSJ's Washington bureau, seeking additional printing capacity, and developing the weekend magazine, WSJ.

"The New York Times has had broad coverage for 156 years now," New York Times CEO Janet Robinson said, "and from that perspective we are far advanced in the type of journalism we create and the type of advertising we bring into the paper."

Source: Newsweek through Paidcontent.org

It has been said that journalism schools have been lagging behind in their adaptation to new media and the rapid evolution of journalism (flashback: in 1995, a publication by the Society of Professional Journalists contended journalists’ new media skills were “nice, but not necessary.”). This is starting to change though – or is it? What should tomorrow’s journalists be learning? Jeff Jarvis, Roy Greenslade, and Keith Woods from the Poynter Institute describe their own experiences for the Weblog.

Seeking Alpha takes a look at Gannett’s ‘Web 3.0’ online holdings, which are its only operations that are currently growing. Thanks to online initiatives, Gannett has recaptured revenues that were once – but no longer are – a given for newspapers.

Paul Moreira is an investigative reporter who has worked extensively in the print press and was one of the founders of the defunct French, investigative, television show “90 minutes.” In his latest book, Les nouvelles censures, Moreira describes the widespread practices of overt and covert manipulations of the news media. “One of this era’s most powerful myths is that we live in the information age. In fact, we live in a media age, in which information is repetitive, “safe” and limited by invisible borders,” writes John Pilger, Hidden Agendas. Are these theories ‘Big Brother’ paranoia, or are information flows much more controlled than the public would like to think? Is this only the case for television’s spectacular requirements, or also for trusted newspapers? Moreira investigates, and answers.

“We had a very long and constructive meeting,” Rupert Murdoch said of his meeting yesterday with the Bancrofts about his offer to buy Dow Jones & Co. The key point of the meeting was for Murdoch to assure the Bancrofts that the integrity of the company would be maintained should they sell. 

With newspaper circulations on the decline, national advertisers are complaining about high national ad rates, which usually carry a premium of up to 30% more than the rates for local advertisers. In their current position, newspapers are often negotiating with these advertisers and conceding lesser premiums.

According to Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, author, analyst, founder and CEO of Mojo Supreme, this year’s final media showdown – in terms of financial success – opposed Walt Disney to News Corp. The runner-ups included CBS, Viacom and Time Warner.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, the metropolis’ largest newspaper, may have to layoff up to 150 of its 425 staffers. Philadelphia Media Holdings’, the Inquirer’s new owner, CEO Brian Tierney wrote a memo a few weeks ago commenting on revenue losses of the paper, which were even greater than expected, especially in national advertising.

Despite their short existence, podcasts are one of the fastest growing new media of Web 2.0. Having only emerged in mid-2004, by the end of 2005 'podcast' was the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. Newspapers looking to innovate have rapidly adopted podcasts as part of their everyday news production, some providing morning news summaries to which readers who may not have the time to read during their commute can listen. The Editors Weblog spoke with three editors in charge of their respective paper's daily podcasting to find out the steps they're taking in integrating podcasting into their newsrooms.

"We're over you, Rupert," is how Emily Bell at the Guardian responds to the first interview News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has given to the British press in five years. Ms. Bell thinks the interview marks the end of the mainstream media era that has now been ceded to a host of "accidental entrepreneurs" in new media. But looking more closely, it seems that the lines between the two are crossing.

"Saying, well, the next generation, my kids, and my grandkids, are going to have very different media consumption patterns is a little bit of a cop-out. It's actually happening now."  These words from Sir Martin Sorrell, C.E.O. of the advertising group WPP, describe why many media owners are scared of the rapid changes their domain is undergoing.

At first, they were reluctant to accept the coming storm.  But now some, especially Rupert Murdoch, seem to be on an Internet holdings spending spree.