It was back in November last year when we reported that the Rupert Murdoch spearheaded News Corp. was planning to create an exclusive newspaper for the Apple iPad. This venture was dubbed as The Daily, and now Forbes reports that the planned launched date for this publication is January 19, 2011.
Forbes reports:
That’s the planned launch date for The Daily, the iPad-only publication News Corp. has been feverishly developing. The company has yet to say boo about it, and a spokesman declined to comment when I asked him about the launch date, which comes via a News Corp. insider.
The debut can’t come soon enough for The Daily’s staffers, who for weeks have been engaged in full-scale dry runs, cranking out dummy issues for what I’ve been told is a distribution list of 1,000 privileged readers. (If you’re on the list and you want to email me a few screen grabs, I’d take that ever so kindly.) Some of that content presumably consists of features that can be banked, but a lot of it is news, meaning its sell-by date will long have passed by the time The Daily goes live.
However, News Corp. has yet to say anything about the publication; nevertheless, they’ve put up a teaser at thedaily.com website which displays a logo with the message “Coming Soon”