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NY Post Circulation Sinks To 508,000

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

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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 ...

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News Corp: MySpace Risks $900 Million Google Deal

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology

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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...

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

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

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

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

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.03.2009 | Media

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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.

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Breaking: Fox News Spun Off to Viacom

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy

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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."

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

businessinsider.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology

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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...

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Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

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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.

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

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

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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 ...

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

Paul Taaffe | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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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.

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Eric Schmidt Questions Murdoch's Online Pay Plan

The Independent | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

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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...

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

AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

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

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

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

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

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

Henry Blodget | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

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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.

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

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.06.2009 | Comedy

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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."

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Murdoch: All News Corp Websites Will Charge By 2010

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

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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...

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News Corp Reports $203 Million Loss On MySpace Writedown

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

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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...

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

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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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

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

Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media

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

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Alloy Partners with Fox Searchlight, LG Mobile for Teen Video Portal (VIDEO)

Daisy Whitney | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media

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News Corp Subsidiary Fined $300M In Michigan Court

Guardian | Leigh Holmwood and Agencies | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

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A News Corporation subsidiary was yesterday ordered to pay a newspaper coupons company $300m (£182m) in damages after it lost a law suit in the US. ...

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Journalists Of Color Demand Fox News Apologize For Brian Kilmeade Comments

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

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UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., a "multicultural coalition of national journalism organizations with an outreach to over 10,000 supporters," has is...

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Could Murdoch's Love of Gossip Doom His Family?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

Gossip, for Murdoch, is partly business intelligence, but Murdoch also likes to know who is sleeping with whom. It is a prurient interest, but it is also leverage.

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News Corp, CBS In Harsh Sun Valley Spotlight

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK/SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp's Rupert Murdoch and CBS Corp's Leslie Moonves will likely be under a harsh spotlight at this year's ...

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News Corp Will Keep MySpace, Won't Purchase Twitter: Murdoch

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho (Reuters) - News Corp is not interested in buying popular microblogging site Twitter and will not sell its struggling social network...

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