Archives: June 2007

Business 2.0's Long Goodbye?

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 29, Categories: Business 2.0, Time Inc., Vivek Shah

There is a hole in today’s announcement from Time Inc.’s Business and Finance Network, the unit that houses Time Inc. business titles like Fortune and Money, in that the fate...

Say What You Will About Rupert Murdoch . . .

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 28, Categories: Dow Jones, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

. . . I mean, as we've seen, there's a lot to say about him. But he is the only guy within the same zip code of CEO pay-grade...

The Extremely Tired And Overemphasized Notion Of Liberal Media Bias, And That MSNBC.com Story About Same

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 21, Categories: Bill Dedman, Journalists, Media Bias, Politics and Media

This is a simpleminded, blunt-tool kind of story, and an obvious bit of blog bait. (Big surprise: It worked.) Inevitably, the Drudge Report headline was THE GREAT DIVIDE: REPORTERS GIVE...

Delicious Dramatic Possibility Sighted In New Dow Jones Development

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 20, Categories: Dow Jones, GE, Pearson

At first blush, the (firewalled) news that Dow Jones’ board will take over negotiations with News Corp. indicates nothing more that the process will quickly move from its current quiescent...

Yahoo-MySpace: Good. God.

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 20, Categories: Facebook, MySpace, News Corp., Social Networks, Yahoo

Multiple reports out there revealing (very) early stage discussions between Yahoo and MySpace over a partnership that would value the latter at $10 billion. That's "$10 billion or more." I'm...

On Terry Semel

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 19, Categories: Terry Semel, Yahoo

I didn’t understand why Terry Semel stayed on as long as he did. He had more money than he could possibly know what to do with, he was in his...

Editorial Reorganization At Wall Street Journal Looms

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 12, Categories: Dow Jones, Marcus Brauchli, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal’s new top editor, managing editor Marcus Brauchli, is putting the finishing touches on a massive reorganization of the financial daily’s top editorial ranks. Chief among the...

Sopranos: Blow Up Your Product Placement (Warning: Contains Spoilers For Final Episode)

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 11, Categories: Product Placement, Sopranos

It’s kind of funny Sopranos' capo di tutti capi David Chase blew up AJ’s bright-yellow Nissan Xterra in the final episode. It was responsible for some of the show's most...

Murdoch, Burkle, the Bancrofts, and . . . David Geffen?

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 05, Categories: David Geffen, Dow Jones, News Corp., Newspapers, Ron Burkle, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

Regarding Rupert Murdoch’s meeting with Dow Jones’ Bancroft family yesterday, ably recounted here by my colleague Ron Grover: What is playing out is a very old and familiar ritual that’s...

Department of Puh-leeze

Posted by: Jon Fine on June 05, Categories: Celebrity Crack-ups, Lindsay Lohan, Magazines, Media/Culture Collisions

In an attempt to piggyback on a certain starlet's notoriety (in a manner nearly as naked as this post's), min starts hyperventilating about some completely spurious concerns regarding Lindsay Lohan's...