Sam OliverAccording to high-end women's fashion journal Women's Wear Daily, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs have worked together closely on the project, which will be called The Daily. It said that Jobs and Murdoch could appear onstage together to unveil the new product.
But The Guardian in the U.K. went one step further, and said that the tablet-only project will be a joint effort between News Corp and Apple. The product, which will not have a print edition or web edition, will allegedly be developed with assistance from Apple engineers.
However, the product will not be iPad-only, the reports said. News Corp's The Daily will reportedly be available for other tablet devices, though Murdoch is said to believe the iPad will be a "game changer," as the device most families use to get their news and information.
The tablet publication will reportedly be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalists have been hired. The product could be announced alongside a rumored newspaper subscription plan Apple is said to be working on.
Apple is also rumored to be creating a new standalone application that will serve as a digital newsstand for magazines and newspapers. Like iBooks makes books available through a separate application, Apple's newsstand will reportedly be created specifically for newspapers and magazines.
A News Corp executive recently confirmed that the company is working on an iPad specific publication set to launch in the U.S. in the coming months. The newspaper will reportedly initially be a U.S.-only product.
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Strange bedfellows...
news corp ceo rupert murdoch and apple chief executive steve jobs have worked together closely on the project...
How does a Beatles-loving, LSD dropping, hippie-wannabe get all mixed up with Rupert Palpatine? While I love the idea of an inexpensive daily "newspaper" that is created specifically for the iPad, taking full advantage of everything the iPad can do, I have NO desire to use my iPad as a right-wing propaganda delivery mechanism.
Apple may have technically helped Murdock, but I doubt they collaborated with the company that owns Fox News and the New York Post, both Right Wing Rags that support that Alaskan Moose, Sarah Palin (especially with Al Gore on Apple's Board of Directors).
Newspapers and the people who work on them deserve to be paid, but if all news and opinion is locked to paid subscriptions and access only via iPad, the Unemployed and the poor have no access to information, current events, or how government and big corporations are screwing around with our lives. You control Freedom of the Press and you take away our rights to be free.
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Strange bedfellows...
Indeed.
I'd never subscribe to a Newscorp product, but I would definitely consider something more reputable like say, the NYT, NPR/PBS, CSM, BBC etc.
Apple teaming up with murdoch! what a tragedy. We will now have billo the clown hannity and coulter, fox news all ramned down our thoats vis apple. Is there no escape. lets hope apples competitors get their products up and running asap. Apple, you have just lost a customer.