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Regan Attacks Newser Founder

(Newser) - Judith Regan is ready to take her rage to court, Rush & Molloy write in the New York Daily News. The former Harper Collins publisher says Newser founder Michael Wolff crossed the line by calling her "reviled" and "unemployable" in his book, The Man Who Owns ... More »

Murdoch Sees Opportunity in NYT's Troubles

Bio says he'd love to acquire it, make Sulzberger his 'puppet'

(Newser) - First the Journal and next the New York Times? The Economist takes a look at Rupert Murdoch's "ever-stronger" ambition to acquire the Times, as laid out in a new biography, The Man Who Owns the News, by Newser founder Michael Wolff. Murdoch views the Times as his "favorite... More »

Murdoch Relies More on Impulse Than Vision

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch may be a titan of the media world, but don't look too deeply to figure out what motivates him. In fact, the "most radical idea" in a new biography of Murdoch by Newser founder Michael Wolff is "that there was never a vision or a broad... More »

Family Deadlock Looms for News Corp.

No tie-breaker deal for 4 Murdoch heirs with voting power: Wolff

(Newser) - News Corp. could be headed for a deadlock when 77-year-old Rupert Murdoch's heirs take over, the Financial Times writes, based on a reading of Newser founder Michael Wolff's upcoming book, The Man Who Owns the News. An agreement giving equal shares in the Murdoch family’s stake to all 6... More »

Has Obama Tipped Murdoch Left?

NY Post coverage trumpets president-elect

(Newser) - Media watchers have been tracking the post-election New York Post with particular interest: Instead of being dyspeptic over the Democratic presidential win, Rupert Murdoch's gleefully right-wing tabloid has treated Barack Obama to coverage ranging, as the New York Times puts it, "from warm and fuzzy to downright heroic."... More »

Meet the Murdochs, the Last News Dynasty

6 children compete for affection and business, writes Wolff

(Newser) - In an age of MBA-holding executives and shareholder revolts, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is that rarest thing: a business dynasty. The media mogul's six children, by three different wives, have conducted their power plays in public and private. But as Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair, while the elder... More »

Murdoch Picks Fight With Newser Founder

(Newser) - It won't surprise anyone that Rupert Murdoch managed to get his hands on an advance copy of Michael Wolff's upcoming biography of him, despite a strict embargo, or that he complained to the publisher over some of the contents. Murdoch gave Wolff more than 50 hours of interviews and access... More »

'Ferocious Kind of Love' Behind Times-Bashing

Hating the Gray Lady, VF finds, often mirrors how one feels about relatives

(Newser) - It seems these days everyone’s got a beef with the New York Times these days, so Vanity Fair set out to find out why, asking a panel of experts their thoughts. Simple envy is the primary culprit, some say; others cite "a ferocious kind of love"; the paper's... More »

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