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

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, News Corp, The Sun, UK Troops, PM Gordon Brown, Afghanistan, The Guardian, England, Rupert Murdoch, Jacqui Janes, Murdoch, News Corporation, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Afghanistan War, World News

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 ...

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News Corp: MySpace Risks $900 Million Google Deal

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology

Read More: Google MySpace, News Corp, Myspace, Google MySpace Deal, News Corp Google Deal, News Corporation, Google, News Corp. MySpace, Murdoch News Corp Myspace, Technology News

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

businessinsider.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Technology

Read More: Marissa Mayer Promiscuity, News Corp, Google Condom Content, News Corporation, WSJ Marissa Mayer, Wed 2.0 Summit, Marissa Mayer, Google, Technology News

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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Murdoch Predicts Death Of Print Unions

ft.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Print Unions, Newspapers, News Corporation, Unions, Newspaper Unions, Media News

More than 20 years after he battled print labour unions at his Wapping newspaper plant, Rupert Murdoch hailed electronic reading devices as the death ...

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

Henry Blodget | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Glenn Beck, Barack Obama, News Corp, First Amendment, News Corporation, Fire Glenn Beck, Media News
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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Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Feud Ends with a Corporate Handshake?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Countdown, General Electric, Ge, Ronald Reagan, Phil Donahue, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Hudson River, Pcbs, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ailes, Propaganda, Jeffrey Immelt, Willie Horton, Msnbc, Fox News, O'Reilly-Olbermann Rivalry, O'Reilly-Olbermann Feud, Journalism, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Republican Talking Points, News Corporation, Republican Party, Republican Strategist Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Corporate honchos at GE and News Corp making back-room editorial decisions for the "news" subsidiaries they control? I can't help but think it might not be the best thing for the integrity of journalism.

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News Corp Reports $203 Million Loss On MySpace Writedown

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, News Corporation, News Corp Earnings, Media News

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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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

Read More: New York Culture, New York, News Corp, Wall Street Journal Culture Section, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, New York News

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 ...

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Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-At-Home Anchorman

Rob Morrison | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Job Losses, Local Tv News, Twitter, Apple Iphone, Nbc, News Corporation, iPhone Apps, Stay at Home Dads, Living News
Rob Morrison

I have not watched a newscast since my last day on air and now everything I require is on my iPhone.

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News Corp Has "Ambitious" Plan To Charge For Web Content

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Online Fees, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, News Corporation, Media News

In one of the most ambitious online undertakings by a media outfit, News Corp. has assembled a team of executives to devise a system to charge for con...

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WhoseSpace?

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Richard Blumenthal, Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, Chris De Wolfe, Twitter, Fox, Skype, You Tube, News Corporation, Google, Tom Anderson, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

In Stealing MySpace, Julia Angwin combines juicy pulp with biz-dev context to turn this story of somewhat shaky and shady entrepreneur-businessman-techie-marketers into a page-turner.

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The Murdoch Non-Apology

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Post, Econmic Stimuls Plan, Sean Delonas, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Fox Network, Racial Trash Talk, Racism, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Stimulus Chimp, Obama Racism, New York Post Monkey Cartoon, Obama New York Post, Stimulus Cartoon, Controversial Cartoon, Obama Chimp, Gunned Down Chimp, New York Post Cartoon, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The loud demands will continue that Murdoch back up his kind of sort of apology with real action. But he won't. There's simply too much money in racial trash talk.

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MyNetwork TV Desperately Overhauls Programming Strategy

New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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MyNetworkTV, a unit of the News Corporation, announced Monday that it would refashion itself, beginning in September, from a broadcast-network model t...

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News Corp's Asian Publication Kills Review Of Critical Murdoch Book

New York Times | Donald Greenlees | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's Adventures in China, Rupert's Adventures in Asia, Far Eastern Economic Review, Media News

When Rupert Murdoch took control in December of Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, he also collected a small Hong Kong monthly, The Far ...

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"Joke" Board Charged With Preserving WSJ Editorial Independence Brings On Latest Sexagenarian

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Susan Phillips, Wsj, WSJ Board, News Corporation, WSJ Editorial Independence, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Dow Jones, Media News

Back in August, Dow Jones and News Corp announced the names of five elderly appointees to the board that will oversee the editorial independence of Th...

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Rudy Giuliani's Rivals Attack Him Over Latest Twist In Kerik Scandal

The New York Observer | Jason Horowitz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: News Corp, Fox Executives, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Judith Regan Lawsuit, Judith Regan News Corp, Judith Regan Kerik, Judith Regan, Harpercollins, Mitt Romney, Rupert Murdoch, Breaking Politics News, News Corporation, News Corp Executives, Politics News

Rudy Giuliani's rivals are not at all satisfied with the former mayor's dismissal of the newest twist in the Bernard Kerik scandal. Commenting on book...

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Judith Regan Lawsuit: News Corp. Exec Wanted Me To Lie To Protect Giuliani

New York Times | RUSS BUETTNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Judith Regan, the former book publisher, says in a lawsuit filed yesterday protesting her dismissal by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate, t...

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Murdoch Scheming

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Two separate news items today further suggest what everyone already knows: Rupert Murdoch is scheming big time when it comes to his purchase of Dow Jo...

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Insiders Say Murdoch Planning To Partner WSJ, Harper Collins

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Add another item to the list of changes that the Murdoch era could usher in for The Wall Street Journal. Since March 2004, The Journal has maintained...

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MySpace Reveals Targeted Ads

Financial Times | Matthew Garrahan, Kevin Allison | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corporation, Myspace, Facebook, Business News

MySpace has raised the stakes in its battle with Facebook after completing the first phase of a pilot scheme that allows it to sell advertisements tar...

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Personality of New Fox Business Network Still Undetermined

Economist | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Bloomberg Television, Cnbc, News Corporation, Roger Ailes, Fox Television, Fox Business Network, CNNfn, Media News

Taking on CNBC, the market leader in business television, Roger Ailes told the Wall Street Journal this week, will be like "our guys" versus the Germa...

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