News Corp is reportedly shopping its popular technology blog, All Things D. If true, this could see fixtures of the tech reporting scene like Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher join another company.
According to Reuters, the contract between All Things D and News Corp is up at the end of the year and relations between the two entities are “amicable but stressed.”
A spokesperson for News Corp said by email on Friday afternoon the company declines comment.
The sale of All Things D would have implications not just for the media industry, where tech blogs are a popular property, but for the technology scene as a whole. Companies in the sector frequently drop important leaks to figures like Mossberg and Swisher whose pronouncements on companies like Yahoo and Apple ripple widely.
More to come.
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