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  • January 2008

    • Online Journal Readers Can't Put Wallets Away (Yet)

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 25, 08 12:45 PM CST

      Online Journal Readers Can't Put Wallets Away (Yet)

      Puncturing the hopes of thrifty web surfers everywhere, the Wall Street Journal will continue to charge for much of its online content, at least for now. New owner Rupert Murdoch's apparently unplanned announcement at the World Economic Forum in Davos came after months of dithering over whether to keep access mostly subscriber-only, reports the New York Times . More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Wall Street Journal  • online news

    • Is MySpace Murdoch's Top Investment?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 21, 08 3:21 PM CST

      Is MySpace Murdoch's Top Investment?

      Two years after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. bought MySpace, and shortly after its two founders signed up for another couple of fabulously well-paid years at the helm, the site is expanding and evolving. Despite challenges (read: Facebook), MySpace represents an impressive return for Murdoch. “He may find that this is the single best investment he has ever made,” Google’s CEO told the New York Times . More »

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      Google  • Rupert Murdoch  • social networking  • MySpace  • News Corp  • Eric Schmidt  • MySpace Celebrity

    • Next-Generation Media Moguls Aim High

      newser  |  The Australian  |  Jan 21, 08 12:06 PM CST

      Next-Generation Media Moguls Aim High

      The sons of two legendary Australian media moguls are joining forces in a $2.9 billion bid to take the country’s Consolidated Media Holdings private, The Australian reports. If the deal is approved, Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer will share the diverse media conglomerate 50-50, with Murdoch as the likely executive chairman. CMH has stakes in pay TV, the Internet, and magazines. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Lachlan Murdoch  • James Packer  • Consolidated Media Holdings

  • December 2007

    • News Corp. to Sell 8 Fox Stations for $1.1B

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Dec 23, 07 8:47 AM CST

      News Corp. to Sell 8 Fox Stations for $1.1B

      News Corp., shifting its focus to its larger, more profitable properties, will sell eight of its medium-market Fox network TV stations to investment firm Oak Hill Capital Partners for $1.1 billion. The sale will leave the media company, which acquired the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones for $5.2 billion this year, with 27 stations, Bloomberg reports. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Wall Street Journal  • Fox  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell

    • Murdoch Libel 'Victim' Charged With Perjury

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Dec 17, 07 7:29 AM CST

      Murdoch Libel 'Victim' Charged With Perjury

      A former leader of Scotland's Socialist Party who won a $400,000 libel suit against publisher Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was arrested yesterday on charges of perjury. One-time member of parliament Tommy Sheridan claimed the bust was a "witch hunt orchestrated and influenced by the powerful reach of the Murdoch empire.” More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • Scotland  • libel  • News of the World

    • DJ Formally Approves Sale to News Corp.

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 13, 07 11:58 AM CST

      DJ Formally Approves Sale to News Corp.

      Dow Jones shareholders formally approved the company’s $5.6 billion sale to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation; the closing is expected later today. The outcome was clear before today’s meeting, but the vote’s margin had been uncertain, as many Bancroft shareholders—whose voting stake was 64.2%—have been cold towards the sale that will end a century of family ownership, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      Dow Jones  • Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Bancroft family

    • Murdoch Grooms Son to Succeed Him

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Dec 7, 07 5:56 AM CST

      Murdoch Grooms Son to Succeed Him

      Rupert Murdoch's son James will be put in charge of News Corp. in Europe and Asia, making him heir apparent to his father's throne, sources tell Bloomberg. James has been in charge of pay-TV provider British Sky Broadcasting Group since 2003; during his tenure the company has more than doubled its net income and increased sales by over 40%. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • media  • News Corp  • Europe  • Asia

    • Dow Jones CEO Leaves Ahead of Murdoch Posse

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 6, 07 5:32 PM CST

      Dow Jones CEO Leaves Ahead of Murdoch Posse

      Dow Jones’ CEO resigned today, one week before News Corp. is expected to finalize its purchase of the Wall Street Journal publisher. Insiders say Richard Zannino’s replacement will be Rupert Murdoch confidant Les Hinton; the succession, to be announced tomorrow, is thought to be the first among many in the $5 billion change in ownership, the Journal reports. More »

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      Dow Jones  • Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Wall Street Journal  • Richard Zannino

    • News Corp Gets That New-Time Religion

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 5, 07 9:17 AM CST

      News Corp Gets That New-Time Religion

      Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has inked an eight-figure deal to buy Beliefnet, the US' most popular religion website, as a platform to promote the company's religious books and programming, the Wall Street Journal reports. Details of the transaction weren't released, but the site will become a part of News Corp's film and television division, Fox Entertainment Group, rather than the interactive media division. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • MySpace  • News Corp  • Fox News  • Fox Entertainment Group

  • November 2007

    • Does Judith Regan Have a Smoking Gun?

      newser  |  New York Observer  |  Nov 27, 07 5:07 PM CST

      Does Judith Regan Have a Smoking Gun?

      Axed publisher Judith Regan sees herself as “the prom queen who got tripped up by the vicious meanies at News Corp,” the New York Observer posits, but nobody who knows her underestimates Regan's skills as a fighter. Either she really does have damaging secrets about Rudy Giuliani behind her defamation and discrimination lawsuit, or she's betting really big on her contract. Regan reportedly turned down a $6.5-million settlement this summer. More »

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      Rudy Giuliani  • lawsuit  • Rupert Murdoch  • defamation  • Judith Regan

    • Thompson Lays Into Fox News

      newser  |  Politico  |  Nov 26, 07 6:56 PM CST

      Thompson Lays Into Fox News

      Fred Thompson isn’t buying “We Report, You Decide.” The Republican White House hopeful yesterday blasted Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," accusing Rupert Murdoch’s network of skewing its election coverage against him. Thompson said belittling his campaign and calling it troubled has become “a constant mantra" on Fox, the Politico reports. More »

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      election 2008  • Rupert Murdoch  • Fred Thompson  • Fox News

    • Regan's Claim Reveals the Real Fox

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Nov 20, 07 7:11 PM CST

      Regan's Claim Reveals the Real Fox

      After 11 years of “the rabbit hole fiction” that Fox News is unbiased, the  jig may be up, claims the Guardian ’s American editor, Michael Tomasky. An admitted liberal journalist himself, Tomasky thinks it's time Fox stopped pretending not to be a conservative voice, as its audience clearly understands it to be. And he thinks the lawsuit from Judith Regan, "the, um, brains behind the OJ Simpson If I Did It mediapalooza," could be the thing that ends the charade. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • journalism  • OJ Simpson  • Fox News  • Judith Regan

    • Axed OJ Book Publisher Sues News Corp. for $100M

      newser  |  Bloomberg  |  Nov 14, 07 4:56 AM CST

      Axed OJ Book Publisher Sues News Corp. for $100M

      Axed publisher Judith Regan has filed a $100 million lawsuit against News Corp., charging the company made her the target of a smear campaign and fired her because she had information damaging to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. "The smear campaign was necessary to advance News Corp.'s political agenda," she said. Regan was dumped after she championed a controversial book featuring OJ Simpson's almost-murder confession. More »

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      Rudy Giuliani  • lawsuit  • Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • OJ Simpson  • civil lawsuits  • HarperCollins  • If I Did It  • Bernard Kerik  • Judith Regan

    • Murdoch Axing Journal's Website Fees

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Nov 13, 07 2:45 PM CST

      Murdoch Axing Journal's Website Fees

      Rupert Murdoch announced today that he intends to remove the Wall Street Journal 's subscription-based system, making the entirety of the site free in a bid to attract enhanced ad revenues, the AP reports. WSJ.com is currently one of the few news sites successfully running a subscription model, with about 1 million subscribers generating $50 million in fees. More »

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      Dow Jones  • Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • Wall Street Journal

    • 'Old Farts' Invade Facebook

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Nov 3, 07 1:00 PM CDT

      'Old Farts' Invade Facebook

      Facebook has matured from an e-frat house where co-eds post pics of their hedonistic exploits to a cyber-cocktail party where the well-heeled gather to display baby pictures and taunt each other like, well, school kids. “I am so telling Rupert,” a columnist teases the Journal’s Matthew Rose, after discovering Mr. Murdoch’s future employee playing Scrabble on the site. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • Rupert Murdoch  • social networking  • MySpace  • Martha Stewart  • OpenSocial  • Gawker

  • October 2007

    • Journal Deal Raises Red Flag With FCC

      newser  |  Broadcasting & Cable  |  Oct 26, 07 1:47 PM CDT

      Journal Deal Raises Red Flag With FCC

      FCC commissioner Michael Copps would like to toss a monkey wrench into News Corp.’s Dow Jones takeover, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Copps, a Democrat, yesterday called for an inquiry to determine whether the deal suits the public interest and whether current rules sufficiently cover the situation. Chairman Kevin Martin would need to open the inquiry. More »

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      television  • Dow Jones  • Rupert Murdoch  • News Corp  • FCC  • Wall Street Journal  • newspaper  • Fox

    • MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 23, 07 2:42 PM CDT

      MySpace Jumps Into Games Fray

      There are tens of thousands of people in your extended network, and they might be playing Gem Quest come January. MySpace plans to host hundreds of easy-to-learn online games to, as one company VP put it, “enhance the fun factor”—and grab a slice of the game industry’s fastest-growing segment, the Journal reports. More »

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      Yahoo  • Rupert Murdoch  • MySpace  • video game  • News Corp  • free online games  • flash games

    • FCC May Ease Rules on Media Owners

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Oct 18, 07 6:22 AM CDT

      FCC May Ease Rules on Media Owners

      FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to relax limits on media consolidation, starting with repealing the rule that a company cannot own a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city, the New York Times reports. The commission is split, with two Democrats opposed and three Republicans supporting, a majority that may be too fragile to change the rules. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • FCC  • Fox  • Tribune Company  • Sam Zell  • Kevin J. Martin

    • Critics Cool to Frisky FBN

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Oct 16, 07 2:27 PM CDT

      Critics Cool to Frisky FBN

      The market was down but Fox Business Network was aggressively upbeat in its debut yesterday, reviewers noted. The New York Times'   Alessandra Stanley made fun of the network's "giggly" mood and said it comes off as "a blend of CNBC and a fifth hour of the 'Today' show." Time 's Justin Fox called it "politically slanted" but "not bad," noting the business coverage "was pretty straight, and was probably more comprehensible to non-market-geeks than most of what you'll see on CNBC." More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • Fox News  • Fox Business Network

    • Fox Business Network Debuts

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Oct 15, 07 3:57 AM CDT

      Fox Business Network Debuts

      Fox Business Network officially debuts this morning, launching a challenge to CNBC, the only other all-business network on the air. FBN officials say they're looking to make business news less "Wall Street" and more "Main Street," so they won't be aiming to take hard-core financial types directly from CNBC—at least for now. More »

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      Rupert Murdoch  • Fox News  • CNBC  • Fox Business Network  • Roger Ailes  • Neil Cavuto

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