News Corp

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...

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

Daisy Whitney | Posted 08.29.2009 | Media


Daisy Whitney

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News Corp Subsidiary Fined $300M In Michigan Court

Guardian | Leigh Holmwood and Agencies | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media


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. ...

Journalists Of Color Demand Fox News Apologize For Brian Kilmeade Comments

Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media


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

Could Murdoch's Love of Gossip Doom His Family?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media


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.

News Corp, CBS In Harsh Sun Valley Spotlight

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media


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 ...

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

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media


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

Wall Street Journal Plans NY Culture Section In Bid To Compete With Times

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York


Eighteen months ago, at the Marriott Hotel on West Street in the Financial District, Rupert Murdoch had his first meeting as owner of The Wall Street ...

Chase Carey Could Earn $43 Million In First Year As Murdoch's #2

Los Angeles Times | Joe Flint | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media


News Corp. certainly made it worthwhile for Chase Carey to return to the company. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal ...

Rebekah Wade Installed As News International CEO

Guardian | Stephen Brook | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media


Rebekah Wade, the editor of the Sun, will become chief executive of News International from September. Wade will be in operational charge of News Int...

Roger Friedman To Sue News Corp: Scientologists Made Them Fire Me

New York Daily News | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media


Fox News bowed to pressure from Kelly Preston, Tom Cruise and other members of the Church of Scientology when it fired columnist Roger Friedman, the e...

MySpace Has Been a "Calamity for News Corp" --Michael Wolff

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Andy Plesser

The author says that giant media company "knows nothing about technology."

New MySpace Execs Get Rude Awakening: Business "In A Lot Worse Shape Than Fox Interactive Was Positioning"

Business Insider | Nicholas Carlson|Jun. 12, 2009, 11:15 AM|4 | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media


Running MySpace, new CEO Owen Van Natta and News Corp. (NWS) digital head Jon Miller are beginning to realize they have taken on a much bigger challen...

Fox News Is Out of This World

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

Fox News more and more represents not just another point of view but a peculiar one, which comes with its own logic, mores, rituals and mythology.

News Corp Forms Diversity Council Following New York Post Chimp Cartoon

AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media


News Corp. has agreed to form an external diversity council after meeting with civil rights groups about a New York Post cartoon that critics said lik...

News Corp Near Deal To Sell Weekly Standard To Philip Anschutz: Report

Los Angeles Times | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media


News Corp. is near a deal to sell its right-wing political magazine, the Weekly Standard, to conservative media mogul Philip Anschutz, according to pe...

Chase Carey To Join News Corp As Murdoch's #2

AP | DEBORAH YAO and RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media


The president and chief executive of DirecTV Group Inc. said Wednesday that he's resigning to return to News Corp. as Rupert Murdoch's second in comma...

Fox Nation: The Seedy Underbelly of Rupert Murdoch's Evil Empire?

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

In the two months that followed the website's launch, The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists.

Chase Carey, DirecTV CEO, In Talks To Return To News Corp

AP | DEBORAH YAO and RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media


The chief executive of DirecTV Group Inc. is in talks to return to News Corp. to be Rupert Murdoch's second in command. Chase Carey is in "serious ne...