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Poynter Media Business Analyst Rick Edmonds tracks the latest industry developments.

Murdoch and Microsoft's Bing: A Media Marriage Made in Heaven?

Posted by Rick Edmonds at 10:55 AM on Nov. 18, 2009

High on the list of things I ought to understand but don't (as an alleged expert on the media biz) is what Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson are up to with their escalating anti-Google rhetoric.

So if Google is a parasite, "stealing" their content, why not simply opt out of being indexed by Google? They could do it this afternoon if they wished.

The fighting words sound more like a negotiating posture to me, but what's to be negotiated? There is a theory bouncing through the blogosphere, with scant evidence but a certain logic: Maybe Murdoch's game is to forge an agreement with Microsoft's Bing to be a preferred or exclusive carrier of News Corp.'s content...

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Nov. 11, 2009

What Killed East Valley Tribune
Posted by Rick Edmonds at 8:50 AM on Nov. 11, 2009

The East Valley Tribune plans to close December 31. What went wrong in the prosperous, expanding communities in the outer belt of metro Phoenix? I'll try a little CSI-style inquest.

First off, the paper is technically not dead yet. It posted a 60-day closing notice last week, as required by federal law for enterprises with more than 100 employees. A last-minute buyer might come forward, as was the case earlier this year at two small Connecticut dailies. I find that highly unlikely, however.

The East Valley Tribune is one of several American papers experimenting with a shift to Web-only publication on most weekdays. At the start of the year it started printing four days a week and cut that to three in May...