According to The Cutline, a Yahoo! news blog, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will join Rupert Murdoch on stage to unveil News Corp.’smuch-anticipatediPad newspaper called “The Daily,” at theSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on Jan. 19th.
Murdochis reportedlyspending a total of $30 million on The Daily. While Murdoch has tried to keep the project quiet, I know a few reporters inNew York Citywho’ve already begun work on The Daily, many of them poached from local media outlets like the NY Observer, TheDaily Beast, Forbes, AOL, Politico and theNew York Postand from far-flung zines like San Francisco’s Wired Magazine. In total, News Corp has already hired over 100 journalists including three managing editors: Mike Nizza, a veteran of The New York Times,AOL Newsand The Atlantic; Steve Alperin, a producer at ABC News, and Pete Picton, an online editor at UK Newspaper, The Sun. The company will be headquartered in the big apple with staffers in Los Angeles.
The Daily is expected to cost .99 per issue and will implement a new “push” subscription feature from iTunes that automatically bills customers on a weekly or monthly basis, with a new edition delivered to your iPad each morning.
Story byCourtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr(show all)Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder ofaudience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally.
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