Pompeo writes, "Executives from the global media conglomerate said that advertising was on the upswing within News Corp's Australian newspaper stable, long a blemish on company earnings reports, and at the company's marquee American broadsheet, The Wall Street Journal, which had a strong October thanks to higher print-advertising revenues in the finance and technology categories, they said. "'The advertising headwinds in Australia have dissipated,' chief executive Robert Thomson said on a Thursday evening conference call to discuss News Corp's financial results for the first quarter of the 2015 fiscal year. 'Advertising at The Wall Street Journal has been robust in recent weeks, with October showing strong gains versus the previous year.' "Still, advertising at the Journal was down in the high single digits year-on-year during the three-month period that ended on Sept. 30.