Media observers already are noticing the changes in a Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal -- a British editor for the glossy magazine launch, tal...
Charles Warner | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media
To ensure that FOX News is fair and balanced, Roger Ailes recently hired Karl Rove - the ultimate fair and balanced person, right up there with Dick Cheney - as a news analyst and commentator.
New York Times | David Carr | Posted 02.11.2008 | Media
The Wall Street Journal, which has historically had a thing for guys in pinstripes rendered in stippled drawings, is taking its makeover very seriousl...
New York Times/TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 02.05.2008 | Media
Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of the News Corporation, took what would seem to be a well-deserved victory lap today, one day after the Super Bow...
New York Times | David Carr | Posted 02.04.2008 | Media
Honeymoons don't last forever. Just ask Hillary Clinton and Rupert Murdoch. Two years ago, Mr. Murdoch, the head of the News Corporation -- which own...
Charles Warner | Posted 01.31.2008 | Media
Anyone who doesn't think the endorsement was all about business strategy, doesn't know Murdoch -- the most brilliant strategic thinker in the highly competitive and rapidly changing media business.
New York Magazine | Posted 01.28.2008 | Media
Today we learn that Tina Gaudoin will be the editor of a yet-to-exist quarterly luxury supplement to The Wall Street Journal. We imagine it will be so...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch wants to move his recently purchased Wall Street Journal out of Manhattan's financial district by the end of the year....
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media
Rupert Murdoch announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the Wall Street Journal website will remain largely a subscription-based serv...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media
I'm just going to give three examples of The Cieply Treatment but you can find a host of others.
Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
The criminal cover-up by the FBI revealed by Sibel Edmonds and the Times' documents conceals extremely serious crimes endangering our security, and protects the official perpetrators.
Harry Shearer | Posted 01.21.2008 | Media
The theft of US nuclear secrets, the diverting of them to Pakistan and possibly Saudi Arabia, the involvement of Israel in the scheme -- all of these would justify as jaw-droppingly newsworthy in a rational journalistic universe.
Bloomberg | Robert Fenner | Posted 01.21.2008 | Media
Lachlan Murdoch and James Packer, scions of Australia's two biggest publishing dynasties, offered A$3.3 billion ($2.9 billion) to buy Consolidated Med...
New york Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 01.21.2008 | Media
Two years ago, Chris DeWolfe, the co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, was talking about international expansion with Rupert Murdoch, whose News...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Well, Gil Cates is happy. But should the rest of us think this is a good deal? "It's really an excellent deal," Gilbert Cates, who led the di...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media
The stories are big, long-form journalism with a big theme--one described it as a magazine story for that day's edition of the paper. (And in a day--p...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics
There is hope that the Democratic Party might have the good sense not to nominate another mealy-mouthed "moderate" who will "triangulate" against the grassroots base of the party.
New York Times | Christopher Gray | Posted 12.30.2007 | Business
Usually, the apartments of the rich are very private, their marble floors and high ceilings hidden from view. But the renovations of Rupert Murdoch's ...
Retuers Via CNBC | Posted 12.24.2007 | Business
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will sell eight U.S. television stations to private equity firm Oak Hill Partners for about $1.1 billion. News Corp said i...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.17.2007 | Home
It seems like every liberal pundit has their panties in a twist about Big Media mergers. When we're hit over the head with A BIG story relentlessly, ...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.14.2007 | Media
Chairman Martin and the other Republican corporate puppets on the FCC want to destroy localism in order to save it. The citizens of this nation, along with the Congress, have had enough of media consolidation.
Josh Silver | Posted 12.13.2007 | Media
Today in the Congress, senators berated FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about his plans to open the floodgates of media consolidation. And Martin didn't flinch.
AP | Seth Sutel | Posted 12.13.2007 | Business
Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co. gave final approval Thursday to a $5 billion bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to acquire the financial publishing ...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
Potterwatch is building a real-world movement against "Voldemedia" -- the handful of companies that control most of what we see, hear and read every day.
Huffington Post | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media
On the heels of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones takeover, to be made official with tomorrow's shareholder vote, today was a big day in Murdoch/Dow Jones ne...
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
WWD | Irin Carmon | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media