Digital's revolution rolls on excitedly, after a fashion, as other non-newspaper sites harvest the riches.
(CNN Money) Microsoft invests in jobs website Microsoft has acquired a 4% stake in CareerBuilder.com, the jobs website, and becomes the site's first non-newspaper investors.
"The PCC is not in any way constituted to impose its views on the unwilling and cannot simply extend its remit to cover non-newspaper sites".
Overall DMGT, which makes almost three-quarters of its operating profits from its non-newspaper assets, said total pre-tax profits rose 64% to £206.3m.
And his ability to drive traffic – especially among young, non-newspaper readers with his FiveThirtyEight blog – was unmatched, and probably will remain so.
(We find some of the non-newspaper blogs pretty good, too. And we thank Greg Wyshynski who writes the very entertaining blog Puck Daddy for posting the "Red Wings Guys" yesterday).
There had been concerns that newspapers were going to be able to write their own press code, even if it was to be interpreted by a regulator largely consisting of non-newspaper representatives.
A more outlandish possibility is a non-newspaper buyer such as ITV, which could see potential in hooking its embryonic local TV service into a network of regional newspapers.
But there are many at high levels of the News Corporation, and among investors, who regard his commitment to the new Sun edition as a distraction from the more important business of managing the company's lucrative non-newspaper assets.
A similar view is taken in a piece by The Guardian's Richard Wray, Associated to cut losses, in which he refers to analysts who reckon the deal is being done to reduce the cash outflow caused by the Standard, thus freeing up money for further investment in non-newspaper assets.
There is also Paws 'n' Claws, a blog that last week included a post about a dog called Maggie who figured out the benefits of sitting beneath a highchair at feeding time, and a question: "Are your dogs and cats unrepentant mooches?" Non-newspaper local blogs include: Plumberry Jam (www.plumberryjam.com) Two former producers at iVillage.com survey northern Westchester's notable stores and events.
