{"id":3838,"date":"2010-11-23T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:03:49","slug":"rupert_murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3838","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Does Another Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/media-news\/murdoch-does-another-daily-3385820\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Some of us count sheep, but Rupert Murdoch spends his sleepless nights dreaming up media properties.<br \/>\nIt was late May, around 2 a.m., and Murdoch was in his New York penthouse on Fifth Avenue having a tough time falling asleep when a vision came to him: publishing a daily news report that would be exclusively made for the iPad and other tablet devices. There would be no print product.<br \/>\nMurdoch had done his homework, so he already knew that readers spend more time fully immersed with the iPad than they do with the Web. He believes that within a few years, tablet devices will be like cell phones or laptops &#8212; consumers will go into Wal-Mart and buy the things at reasonably cheap prices (far more diminished than the $499 for an iPad now). In his mind, in the not-too-distant future, every member of the family will have one. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes perfect sense.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\/2010\/11\/22\/the-integrated-ipad-news-daily-read-all-about-it\/\">Horace Dediu has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/media-news\/murdoch-does-another-daily-3385820\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Some of us count sheep, but Rupert Murdoch spends his sleepless nights dreaming up media properties.<br \/>\nIt was late May, around 2 a.m., and Murdoch was in his New York penthouse on Fifth Avenue having a tough time falling asleep when a vision came to him: publishing a daily news report that would be exclusively made for the iPad and other tablet devices. There would be no print product.<br \/>\nMurdoch had done his homework, so he already knew that readers spend more time fully immersed with the iPad than they do with the Web. He believes that within a few years, tablet devices will be like cell phones or laptops &#8212; consumers will go into Wal-Mart and buy the things at reasonably cheap prices (far more diminished than the $499 for an iPad now). In his mind, in the not-too-distant future, every member of the family will have one. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes perfect sense.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\/2010\/11\/22\/the-integrated-ipad-news-daily-read-all-about-it\/\">Horace Dediu has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6,32,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}