After a tumultuous year for News Corporation which has seen the company rocked by an ethics scandal, Rupert Murdoch has named longtime lieutenant Robert Thomson head of global publishing as his company prepares to separate its entertainment and news/book publishing assets into Fox Group and News Corporation, respectively.

As part of the move, News Corp. is folding its digital magazine app that was its Greg Clayman-headed iPadazine, The Daily, which will cease publishing on Dec. 15. While it will no longer exist as an iPad app, The Daily brand will survive as a news channel on properties such as NYPost.com. Now Clayman will oversee digital for News Corp. as part of the executive shuffle involved with separating the company.

First announced on June 28th, the pending company split will group News International's UK titles, the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, the Australian and other News Ltd papers and its HarperCollins book publishing entity under the News Corporation umbrella, while the entertainment properties will fall under the Fox Group. Thomson will run News Corporation while Chase Carey will serve as President and COO of Fox Group with James Murdoch as Deputy COO.

“This is an incredibly exciting time, for me personally, and for our companies’ ambitious futures,” stated Murdoch. “The challenges we face in the publishing and media industries are great, but the opportunities are greater.”Continue reading...

Rupert Murdoch names longtime lieutenant Robert Thomson head of global publishing unit as company's news/book publishing and entertainment assets prepare to be separated into News Corporation and Fox Group. As part of global restructuring, experimental "ipadazine" The Daily is closing.

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"If you go and look at something and it looks different every time you see it, like completely different, it’s hard to establish a brand, it’s hard to establish a voice. We have an editorial voice and we have a very specific looking feel and it’s one that allows for a lot of latitude. 

The next question is — as tablets evolve and as screens converge — how do we bring a distinct voice to this new role? What does that look like? We’re excited that we have in a short time already created a brand and a point-of-view that we can bring to that world as it evolves. 

As a brand you want people, whether they’re reading your emails or looking at you on the iPad or at an app you’ve created, you want those people to all come away with that same message."

— Greg Clayman, publisher of News Corp.'s four-month-old The Daily subscription publication for the iPad, to Jeff Mancini, Interbrand's New York senior director of digital strategy

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News Corp.'s The Daily iPad digital magazine digs up two American brides-to-be who are eagerly anticipating the April 29th wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William for ideas they can incorporate into their own nuptials. The royal couple, meanwhile, today made their last official appearance before their wedding.Continue reading...

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Well, technically it's News Corp.'s The Daily, although Fox did plug it on last night's Super Bowl.

Fresh from his plug for JFK's 50th inauguration anniversary, watching NBC's late-night host spoof new NBCU owner Comcast, and find the funny side of iPad journalism, makes for a promo that Rupert Murdoch would have been better served to run during last night's Super Bowl than this.