iPad News Publication 'The Daily' Now Rumored for Mid-January Launch

[MacRumors]

We've been following News Corp.'s reported tablet-focused news product, The Daily, for some time as the newspaper industry's most significant foray into digital-only publication looking to harness some of the technological capabilities of tablet devices, but have yet to hear firm word on launch details for the publication.

Despite rumors of a December launch, it appears that The Daily's debut will not occur until early next year, possibly due in part to delays on Apple's side as it prepared iOS 4.2 for release pushing back its work on rolling out iOS support for recurring billing and for automatically pushing content from apps like The Daily to users' devices.

All Things Digital now reports that News Corp. is preparing to launch The Daily during the week of January 17th.

News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multiple sources tell me.

The caveat here is that launch plans have moved around a couple of times in the past few months; until recently, lots of folks expected to see this thing in December. But this latest date looks like a much safer bet.

According to reports, The Daily will be published on a daily basis at a subscription rate of 99 cents per week and offer substantial video and multimedia content, "including some kind of 3-D effect that lots of people are very excited about."

The Daily is also expected to be the first application to use Apple's forthcoming recurring billing feature, allowing users' iTunes Store accounts to be automatically charged on a weekly or monthly basis to keep news content flowing to their devices. Other content-focused apps are obviously expected to quickly adopt the feature once it goes live.

Article Link: iPad News Publication 'The Daily' Now Rumored for Mid-January Launch

 

[HarryKeogh]

When asked what was her favorite digital publication, Sarah Palin responded "oh, I read all the iPads."

 

[dbonesyl]

Haters, stop and think

This will be a success, and it will be the future of newspapers. Once the publications you do like see how successful News Corp. is with this idea, they will all jump on board and you can subscribe to your own brand of news reporting (liberal leaning, "unbiased", or whatever). Murdoch and his crew are just the trailblazers, and for that you should be excited.

 

[barns]

I'm never going to get over what Fox did to Firefly.

 

[Porchland]

This will be a success, and it will be the future of newspapers. Once the publications you do like see how successful News Corp. is with this idea, they will all jump on board and you can subscribe to your own brand of news reporting (liberal leaning, "unbiased", or whatever). Murdoch and his crew are just the trailblazers, and for that you should be excited.

I suspect News Corp. will try and make very clear from the launch that this is not Fox News for iPad. They want to build a mainstream brand on a device that's going to add millions of users a month over the next several years.

When you carve iPad users down to a conservative, politically interested subset, you've got a much smaller user base than what The Daily will need to survive.

 

[BJMRamage]

Overall this is a good thing to be brought to the iPad.

Speaking for Fox News or any other news outlet (WORLDWIDE) everyone has a SPIN. Many Americans feel uppity thinking they are “smarter” for watching/listening to the BBC (and the like) but everyone spins things. A documentary is just another one-sided argument with a Director’s take or agenda (most notably Michael Moore’s but even BBC documentaries are easily one-sided).

Plenty of Fox News employees donate to the Right Wing....and plenty of MSNBC and the like donate to the Left Wing.

Watch all with open eyes and you can see where the “NEWS” is more slanted with agendas. Then you can fit the puzzle together with facts. Ignore some news channels and you become ignorant of all facts and stories. Solely watching Fox makes one slanted as does ignoring Fox. If I hear a story that catches my eye/ear then I like to take time to research it to uncover more facts. I hate seeing emails with this or that politically for the past 10 years (that covers two different administrations) and usually stop the email forward or reply with FACTS.

 

[Full of Win]

I am so there. Where do I sign up? Fair and Balanced reporting FOR THE WIN!!!

 

[lyzardking]

Overall this is a good thing to be brought to the iPad.

Speaking for Fox News or any other news outlet (WORLDWIDE) everyone has a SPIN. Many Americans feel uppity thinking they are “smarter” for watching/listening to the BBC (and the like) but everyone spins things. A documentary is just another one-sided argument with a Director’s take or agenda (most notably Michael Moore’s but even BBC documentaries are easily one-sided).

Plenty of Fox News employees donate to the Right Wing....and plenty of MSNBC and the like donate to the Left Wing.

Watch all with open eyes and you can see where the “NEWS” is more slanted with agendas. Then you can fit the puzzle together with facts. Ignore some news channels and you become ignorant of all facts and stories. Solely watching Fox makes one slanted as does ignoring Fox. If I hear a story that catches my eye/ear then I like to take time to research it to uncover more facts. I hate seeing emails with this or that politically for the past 10 years (that covers two different administrations) and usually stop the email forward or reply with FACTS.

+100

couldn't of said it better myself

If something is reported by somebody, then it is slanted (whether intensional or not).

 

[Antares]

According to reports, The Daily will be published on a daily basis...

This, for me, is the most shocking bit of news, here. The Daily is going to be published on a daily basis.

 

[BJMRamage]

Perhaps the best approach (and as this is an online forum will probably be disregarded/ignored or quickly abandoned, but...)

We should reply (with new posts, not those that are in a conversational matter) with Political thoughts/App thoughts/and the like.

Politically I think this is the best thing to happen to the iPad —OR— this app spews political sewage on the iPad.

App thoughts this will bring about a new business model to the iPad that will revolutionize the new technology—or—this app is a waste and is only giving way for corporations to suck money out of us on a daily basis like other monthly payouts.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

This would be more interesting if any of these major networks were more than just panderers and actually took the time to report News, as in, what new things are being discovered, invented, learned, & developed. Instead all any of these organizations cover is what whichever group of awful people they don't like did to the group of awful people they do like. Nothing new about it, or even interesting to anyone with any freakin perspective of their own. But hey, for that, you'd need life experiences, and it's so much more profitable if you just sit back, do nothing, and watch our actors simulate them instead. Safer too, it's a big scary world out there. We have funny guys and sexy girls. Look at this exciting advertising. Form your perspective based on what we tell you. Fear what we tell you. Vote how we tell you. Buy what we tell you. We're the good guys. Trust us. Shot of baby in back seat smiling. Tires that grip in the wet. Fitter. Happier. More productive. Not drinking too much. A pig. In a cage. On antibiotics.

Trash news for trashy people. Won't turn my ipad into a sewer pipe.

 

[BJMRamage]

This would be more interesting if any of these panderers actually took the time to report News, as in, what new things are being discovered, invented, learned, & developed. Instead all any of these organizations cover is what whichever group of awful people they don't like did to the group of awful people they do like. Nothing new about it, or even interesting to anyone with any freakin perspective.

Trash news for trashy people. Won't turn my ipad into a sewer pipe.

People need to separate Commentators and "news" Talk Show hosts from News Reporters

Each side has too many Opinion Commentators who feed "swill" to the ignorant folks who sit fixed to the screen and see & believe what they are told. most of the airtime is played upon this approach rather than a news story or sorts....could there really be a news channel reporting ONLY news? people would be upset if they tuned in at 6pm only to know they missed news, so the stations pick a few stories and replay then but each time just adding more rhetoric and loud talking battles.

 

[3282868]

This would be more interesting if any of these panderers actually took the time to report News, as in, what new things are being discovered, invented, learned, & developed. Instead all any of these organizations cover is what whichever group of awful people they don't like did to the group of awful people they do like.

I never thought of it in this way. Very interesting point. I wrote earlier that the days of reporting news without opinion (pundits) have been long dead. It's sensationalism that seems to dominate, using fear induced tactics to bring in viewership (reminds me of Bill Murray's character in "Scrooged," showing the promo for the Christmas Special his network is producing with violent clips to induce fear if you don't watch lol).

OT: I like TED and other online sites that report new findings in science. Has anyone watched neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor's presentation about her experience of having a stroke? Truly AMAZING and inspiring, I could not believe she was so calm during her stroke that she took the time to study her experience, and was fortunate enough to relay it to others.

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

 

[Richard1028]

could there really be a news channel reporting ONLY news?

It worked years ago. Every day at 5:30/6:30 P.M. for 30 minutes. That's all you got.


Now it's the 24/7 news cycle. Can't do that without showing news that really isn't newsworthy at some point. It's kind of like MacRumors here.... never saw a day when the front page was blank even though it probably should have been.

 

[Digitalclips]

It worked years ago. Every day at 5:30/6:30 P.M. for 30 minutes. That's all you got.


Now it's the 24/7 news cycle. Can't do that without showing news that really isn't newsworthy at some point. It's kind of like MacRumors here.... never saw a day when the front page was blank even though it probably should have been.

Of course they could easily fill any gaps with 'Good News' but that would never sell /sigh

 

[fxtech]

The Daily?

Gee, I wonder how "News" Corp came up with the name.

I'm sure this will make The Daily Show guys happy.

 

[CFreymarc]

This will be a success, and it will be the future of newspapers. Once the publications you do like see how successful News Corp. is with this idea, they will all jump on board and you can subscribe to your own brand of news reporting (liberal leaning, "unbiased", or whatever). Murdoch and his crew are just the trailblazers, and for that you should be excited.

One "joke demo" done at SigGraph years ago, was a web site with a "bias-o-meter" that was a horizontal slider across the top of the page for a news web site.

The user was able to adjust the amount of political bias in the articles displayed. You could make the news site be "far left," "left of center," "center," "right of center" or "far right." The example showed articles of three news events written in those five biases as you shift the slider.

The three letter network guys present had your typical surface smile with rage underneath. The overall crowd loved it.

 

[Ugg]

Will this save traditional journalism? Maybe. I think there's a huge demand for mobile content but the inability to link into or out of an article on the Daily probably dooms this particular publication. Additionally, it looks as though The Daily will probably be only updated once, maybe twice a day. If murdoch & co. were known for their indepth, fact-based reporting, it might be worthwhile, but since they aren't...

The one think I like about the NYT is that there are periodic updates throughout the day. It's easy to read the main news in the morning and then get updates later. I honestly don't think a newspaper can survive in this day and age if it appears only once a day.

The handful of newspaper apps I've downloaded onto my iPod Touch are mostly pretty lame. Of course the iPad is a larger format but what's needed is something more dynamic. Obviously, the iPad has the potential to be a game changer and Apple is working with rupert on this so it might turn out ok, but we'll see.

 

[twoodcc]

hmm. i'm not sure i want to be part of a weekly charge with my itunes account. we'll see how this turns out though

 

[CFreymarc]

Will this save traditional journalism? Maybe. I think there's a huge demand for mobile content but the inability to link into or out of an article on the Daily probably dooms this particular publication. Additionally, it looks as though The Daily will probably be only updated once, maybe twice a day. If murdoch & co. were known for their indepth, fact-based reporting, it might be worthwhile, but since they aren't...

The one think I like about the NYT is that there are periodic updates throughout the day. It's easy to read the main news in the morning and then get updates later. I honestly don't think a newspaper can survive in this day and age if it appears only once a day.

The handful of newspaper apps I've downloaded onto my iPod Touch are mostly pretty lame. Of course the iPad is a larger format but what's needed is something more dynamic. Obviously, the iPad has the potential to be a game changer and Apple is working with rupert on this so it might turn out ok, but we'll see.

Traditional journalism died when William Randolph Hearst's newspaper empire had majority readership across the country. We have been recovering and fading from yellow since then. The Internet had the newsprint paper mills jump the shark about ten years ago. Items like the iPad are having stories bypass the AP's political framework quite successfully.

 

[MacDawg]

Please keep posts on topic about the technology and innovations addressed in the original post

Discussions of Fox News can be engaged in the Politics, Religion and Social Issues Forum in a number of active threads

Thanks!

 

[jamied95]

So, w/c January 17th, that would work for the announcement of The Daily. Launching the iPad 2 alongside that would make sense? And you never know, they might bring the CDMA iPhone 4 along for the ride!

 

[The Toddfather]

I'm in. I've been waiting for daily that takes advantage of the multi media capabilities of the iPad. The fact that such a successful newsman is behind it makes it that much better.

 

[misfit356tsw]

This is now the digital age of news and like it or not Rupert Murdoch is a visionary. This is a good thing for Apple and a good thing for the news business.

 

[SockRolid]

Perfect timing for iPad 2 announcement

Steve Jobs and Apple are again proving their mastery of public relations. The entire world's tech media was focused on last January's iPad announcement. And when Steve sat down and demoed iPad for the first time, the world instantly forgot all the half-baked vaporware "slates" that were mashed up for CES. It was as though CES had never happened.

Next month, the tech media will again cover the iPad 2 announcement. The same thing will happen, with one major difference. Once again, all the bogus iPad-wannabes will be forgotten the moment Steve whips out iPad 2. But this time the rest of the world's media will also cover the iPad 2 rollout. Why? Because the Daily will be rolled out at roughly the same time, if not on the same stage. And the Daily represents the future of "professional journalism" and "big publishing" whether it succeeds or fails. Not because of its politics.

If the Daily can make money, we'll see an avalanche of similar iOS apps from all the major media conglomerates. If the Daily fails, then professional print journalism (as a business) is dead, and TV journalism and bloggers have taken over.