The Daily
The Daily was an online daily newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch ( News Corporation ). It was published electronically via the iPad without the production of a paper edition and was distributed as paid content . It was the first online newspaper that was specially developed for the iPad and that was only circulated on tablet computers . The Daily has been available for tablets with the Android operating system since the second quarter of 2011 .
The project, which employed about 120 journalists, was invested $ 30 million prior to its inception date. The first issue was originally due to appear on January 19, 2011. In mid-January 2011 it became known that the release date would be delayed by a few weeks due to a missing subscription function in Apple's App Store . This subscription worked like a push service . Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President Eddy Cue presented The Daily on February 2, 2011 in New York . The publisher charged 14 US cents for a single edition of the online newspaper. A subscription was either $ 99 per week or $ 39.99 for a year. After payment, the user is entitled to redistribute individual articles free of charge via email , Facebook or Twitter . Shortly after the release of the tablet edition created a blogger in Web an index page that collected these links to Web content and archived.
According to Murdoch, The Daily cost about $ 500,000 a week to run. It was intended to align the medium “between tabloid and quality journalism”, but neither foreign branches nor an office in Washington were planned. Jesse Angelo , who previously worked for the tabloid New York Post , was in charge of the project .
The publication was discontinued on December 15, 2012. This was due to the lack of profitability caused by a combination of insufficient advertising partners and subscriptions .
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- ↑ New York Times , online November 21, 2010, accessed November 26, 2010
- ↑ Android store ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FAZ of February 4, 2011, page 35: Think and smile
- ↑ der Standard , online edition of November 23, 2010, accessed on November 26, 2010
- ↑ Die Zeit , online edition of November 22, 2010, visited on November 28, 2010
- ↑ Murdoch closes "The Daily" Zeit Online from December 2, 2012
- ^ Yvonne Ortmann: iPad newspaper “The Daily” is discontinued. In: t3n magazine . December 3, 2012, accessed December 6, 2012 .
