(Rupert) Murdoch is currently leading the charge to build The Daily, an iPad-centered newspaper under construction in the News Corporation’s Manhattan offices that is scheduled to appear at the beginning of next year. With an investment of $30 million and a staff of around 100, The Daily will be the first of a kind — a “newspaper” with rich media and photography built especially for the iPad. The enterprise has made some surprising hires from the ranks of the mainstream…
It is hard to find coverage of the development of The Daily that does not take an attitude one way or another, that it is DOA or radically new. It is neither.