Are Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch Collaborating On an iPad-Only Newspaper? [Video]

Rupert Murdoch thinks that the iPad is the beginning of the longer term of media. Steve Jobs agrees. That’s why-in line with WWD’s sources- News Corp . is releasing an iPad-only newspaper called The Daily. Created with Apple’s help, says the Guardian:

According to reports, there might be no ” print edition” or ” web edition” ; the central innovation, developed with the help of Apple engineers, can be to dispatch the publication automatically to an iPad or any of the growing number of similar devices.

The ” central innovation” sounds plenty like Push, but I will imagine them implementing something in the application itself. A push so as to update the front page or section content and layouts dynamically, as hotter news arrive straight from the scoop room. Almost like this:

Murdoch’s minions were working on this tablet-only newspaper for decades, putting one of his stars at the helm of the most recent venture: Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the most recent York Post. Angelo has been handpicking top editors and writers to create The Daily which, consistent with sources on the point of the project, might be a ” tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence.”

The new tablet-only newspaper would use the new App Store subscription model at 99 cents per week, about $4.25 monthly. The app may match in beta this December, while WWD suggests that Murdoch himself could join Steve Jobs on its 2011 public presentation.

Knowing that Jobs and Murdoch have good relations -and knowing how mad Jobs has been at his dear Big apple Times -it all sounds pretty reasonable to me-although both characters have totally different affairs of state.

After all, at the tip of the day, the only real politicians that interest the heads of corporations like Apple and News Corp. are Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Benjamin Franklin. [ WWD via The Guardian ]

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