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Gary Ginsberg, News Corp Exec & Murdoch's Liaison To Democrats, Leaving News Corp

Posted 11.16.2009 | Media


News Corp Executive VP of Global marketing and Corporate Affairs Gary Ginsberg will be leaving News Corp at the end of the year, the company announced...

Gordon Brown, British PM, Faces "Bullying" From British News Corp Paper The Sun

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...

Rupert Murdoch's Serious Internet Strategy

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


Jarvis Coffin

There are two ways to chase after serious money as a publisher, and one of them is to be small. Having tried big, Murdoch may be coming to terms with the alternative.

Rupert Murdoch Plans To Block More Than Just Google

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy


Matthew Filipowicz

In an exclusive interview, Rupert Murdoch explains that Google is only the beginning of News Corp.'s plans to further isolate themselves. Take a look.

Murdoch May Block Google Searches Entirely From His Newspaper Sites

Guardian | Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with ...

NY Post Circulation Sinks To 508,000

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Nearly every paper in America has lost circulation, but The Post more than most -- down almost 30 percent in 2.5 years, to 508,000 in the most recent ...

The Right-Wing Media's Election Analysis Just Ain't That Good

Karl Frisch | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

Back in 2001, conservative media figures were adamant. Democratic Party victories at the ballot boxes during the off-year elections had little national significance.

News Corp: MySpace Risks $900 Million Google Deal

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology


The takeaway: The site [MySpace] is losing traffic and money and no longer expects to get all of the $900 million it once counted on from a Google sea...

News Corp Earnings Up Surprising 11%, Fox News Income Grows 41%

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — Media conglomerate News Corp. posted a surprise increase in quarterly profit Wednesday, but Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said th...

Lebanon's LBC TV Rides Layoffs Wave Ahead of Murdoch Buy-in, Arab Media Market Expansion

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media


Magda Abu-Fadil

Lebanese media group LBC recently sliced 140 jobs, is trimming fat, and repositioning itself for a mega deal involving Rupert Murdoch's purchase of shares in Rotana Media.

Breaking: Fox News Spun Off to Viacom

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy


Gerald Sindell

Asked what she might need to do in order to make Fox News a better fit with the Comedy Channel formula, Viacom's MTV networks CEO, Judy McGrath replied, "Absolutely nothing."

Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content

businessinsider.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology


I'd thought I'd heard it all in the debate over Google and newspapers, but this week Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson took it up a n...

Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


Eric E. Burns

The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.

Marc Lamont Hill Found Out Through 'Google Alert' That Fox News Fired Him

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


Last week HuffPost reported that liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill had been fired. The news was announced by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch ...

Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek -- But Who Is the Real Winner?

Paul Taaffe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


Paul Taaffe

Resist the temptation to dismiss Bloomberg LP's acquisition of BusinessWeek as merely the latest move in the media consolidation. This deal is a game changer on a number of levels.

Eric Schmidt Questions Murdoch's Online Pay Plan

The Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media


Publishers of general news would find it hard to charge for their content online because too much free content is available, the chief executive of Go...

Murdoch's Son: BBC Expansion Is "Chilling," A Threat To Independent Journalism

AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media


EDINBURGH, Scotland -- The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has called the British Broadcasting Corp. a threat to independent journalism. James Mu...

News Corp Leading Effort To Create Consortium With Rivals To Force Online Fees

Los Angeles Times | Dawn C. Chmielewski | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


As newspapers across the country struggle with declining readership and advertising revenue, News Corp. executives have been meeting in recent weeks w...

Sorry, Glenn Beck's Job is Not Protected by the First Amendment

Henry Blodget | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media


Henry Blodget

The First Amendment does not allow employees of private corporations to say whatever the heck they feel like saying regardless of how much it embarrasses their employers.

Murdoch to Charge for News Online 'If We Ever Publish Any'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.06.2009 | Comedy


Andy Borowitz

Murdoch stressed that readers would only be charged for "actual news" that appears on his sites, "which means that 99% of the content will remain free."

Murdoch: All News Corp Websites Will Charge By 2010

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start paying fees to read the news within the next year, Cha...

News Corp Reports $203 Million Loss On MySpace Writedown

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — News Corp said Wednesday it lost $203 million in the latest quarter due to a huge writedown at MySpace, but Rupert Murdoch said hi...

Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics


Michelle Schweiger Schecter

A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Immelt Met To Broker MSNBC-Fox News Truce: Report

Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and General Electric chief Jeffrey Immelt met up at -- appropriately enough -- the Microsoft CEO summit in Redmond, Wa...