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Fox News: It's Eductaoinal!

Bob Harris | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media


Bob Harris

Hat tips to ThinkProgress and NewsHounds. ...

Microsoft's New Yahoo Plans May Include Old Allies News Corp, Time Warner

Reuters | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business


(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal ...

Comcast, NBC, Universal McCann Embrace New Business Models, say Leaders

Jack Myers | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home


Jack Myers

Traditional media and advertising business models are "doomed;" social media have little economic future; Google will become less relevant a...

News Corp, CBS, Hit 52-Week Lows

Hollywood Reporter | Georg Szalai | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media


It was a tough first half for big media and entertainment stocks as economic sluggishness, company-specific concerns and broader market declines -- pa...

MySpace Redesign To Focus On Making So Much Money

The New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business


When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing -- and ...

Verdict In $1 Billion NewsCorp Spying Case

ABC News | Len Tepper and Brian Ross | Posted 05.14.2008 | Business


Jurors in Los Angeles have reached a verdict in a $1 billion lawsuit alleging that a company in Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp empire spied on a rival and ...

News Corp Withdraws Bid For Newsday

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.10.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island paper Newsday, a N...

News Corp Earnings Triple As Newsday Sale Looms

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said Wednesday he expects to clinch a deal to buy the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday within a week...

Rupert Murdoch To Double The Price of The New York Post

New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media


Mr. Murdoch has set his sights on Newsday because he sees it as a way to eliminate losses at The New York Post, a News Corporation property that loses...

Murdoch: Economy Hurting Advertising

Reuters | Kenneth Li | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business


Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday stress in the U.S. economy is squeezing advertising budgets, adding that News Corp's (NWSa.N) Fox Interactive Media w...

Actress Judy Davis Sues News Corp Subsidiary For Defamation

AP | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment


Judy Davis told an Australian court Tuesday that she stopped attending her daughter's soccer games out of anguish over newspaper articles she claims s...

The Media Shopoholic Strikes Again

Marvin Kitman | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media


Marvin Kitman

Whenever Murdoch is depressed, my studies over the years as a media pathologist find, he has what he calls "an expansionist lunge." And when he's in one of them he can't be outbid.

Sad Day for Journalism if Murdoch Swallows Newsday

Ruth Hochberger | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media


Ruth Hochberger

Lost in the flurry of the Pennsylvania primary and the Pope's visit was a story that should bring a tear to the eye of any journalist, or any lover of independent journalism in this country.

Rupert Murdoch Vs. FCC In Battle To Control New York Media — And Wage War Against The New York Times

Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media


Several stories this morning highlight Rupert Murdoch's battle to control New York media — first by ousting the editor of the Wall Street Journa...

WSJ: News Corp Nearing $580M Deal For Newsday

Wall Street Journal | Merissa Marr | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media


Tribune Co. is closing in on an agreement to sell its Long Island newspaper Newsday to News Corp. for about $580 million, according to individuals fa...

Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React

PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...

Internet, Media Stars Line Up for Yahoo

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...

Justice Dept. Sues News Corp For Refusing To Pay FCC Fine

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media


WASHINGTON — In an unusual move, the Justice Department sued Fox Broadcasting Co. and another broadcaster Friday to collect $56,000 in fines for...

News Corp. Blows MySpace Targets, Dumps Sales Chief

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business


News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media group, which includes MySpace and other web sites, will miss the company's goals of $1 billion in revenue and $200 ...

MTV Recreates the Holocaust -- for Teens

Derek Beres | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment


Derek Beres

Using the Holocaust as the backdrop for what could befall America if we are "not careful," the 30-second spots question the integrity of the network for using an example that remains fresh in the minds of a culture.

Fox News Ironically Needs Endangered Species Act

236.com | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media


Time magazine, pondering the fate of Fox News, called the network a "cultural artifact of the Bush era." Ratings have begun to plateau and MNSBC is co...

Media Mogul Battle! Murdoch, Zuckerman Both Eyeing Another New York Paper

Huffington Post | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media


As first reported yesterday by Crains New York, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch — who recently acquired Dow Jones (and the Wall Street Journa...

AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to...

NBC-News Corp. Video Site Hulu.com Set To Launch To Public

AP | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media


From the AP: LOS ANGELES -- Hulu.com, a joint venture between News Corp. and NBC Universal, plans to open its vast online library of ad-supported TV ...

News Corp Will Not Fight Microsoft For Yahoo

Reuters | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business


Rupert Murdoch said on Monday his News Corp (NWSa.N) would not get into a fight with Microsoft Corp over Yahoo Inc, confirming what most industry and ...


 

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