Rupert Murdoch
Background
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11, 1931), usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation (News Corp). Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. In recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet and media. News Corp is based in New York.
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...championship instead of Spain. I had Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari riding highest in Formula One instead of Lewis Hamilton and McLaren. I had Michael Phelps winning seven gold medals at the Beijing Olympics instead of eight. I had the New England Patriots winning...
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International Herald Tribune
...is now accepting video submissions in which entrants explain their reasons for wanting to attend and be a member of the Davos press corps. One winner, chosen by a panel of industry figureheads that includes pundit and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington...
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CNET
...Dow Jones & Co. properties will have their salaries frozen for a year because of the recession. Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton said in an internal staff memo Thursday that the wage freeze was necessary because of uncertainties with how the economic...
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PR-Inside.com
...it turns out, that the coffers of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are not bottomless. The company has just frozen salaries across the board for all employees of Dow Jones. The only exceptions seems to be those covered by union contracts that mandate certain increases. This...
15 hours ago from
Silicon Alley Insider
...security secrets? How then can we continue to rely on the Times to publish our national security secrets? I believe Valerie Plame was first identified by conservative Robert Novak in the Post, not the Times. Fuck you and your snooty crossword with opera clues Damn,...
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The Big Lead
...back at the highs and lows of the paper's time at the controversial plant 25 Oct 2007: 'Everyone should be worried when Murdoch goes head-to-head. He's just a better competitor,' Murdoch's biographer Michael Wolff tells Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade....
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Greenslade
...words, the Times, like Steve Jobs, looks to be the victim of premature memorializing. Don't take it too hard, Michael. Maybe your Newsweek deathwatch will work out better. This will be your display name and appear next to your comments Keep me...
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Conde Nast Portfolio
...that lose tons of money are, indeed, kept afloat for mostly ideological reasons. Both are “conservative” and one, the New York Post, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, the subject of this new biography by journalist and sometime-entrepreneur Michael Wolff. According...
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PopMatters
...that. That would be F-N hilarious. I can see it now. Rush and Hannity as executive editors.....a daily opinion piece done by Ann Coulter. Replace the entertainment section with "ON THE WAR FRONT" stories by Ollie North. Actual stories about politicians and...
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Newsbusters
Last Week - About Rupert Murdoch
...sells his next book, The Brain Eaters, for $10 million. 17 people buy it; 4 read it. +10 for getting Padma, Sklar, and Hoobastank into the same sentence I predict that Caroline McCarthy will give birth to a child in 2009 in Wasilla, Alaska. After many...
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Journerdism
...prosperity, have been exposed as a con game. But this does not mean our corporate masters will disappear. Totalitarianism, as George Orwell pointed out, is not so much an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. "A society becomes totalitarian when its structure...
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Global Research
...page, the Journal has consistently maintained a high standard for science and medical reporter (which I hope continues under Rupert Murdoch). With that said, Jacob Goldstein today brings us a good news post on childhood cancer survivor, Dr Trevor Banka, who...
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ScienceBlogs
...a couple of years ago that happens to publish a daily newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Long before Fox News was a gleam in Roger Ailes' eye, the Journal editorial and opinion pages were dedicated to the mythology of free markets, supply-side economics,...
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Huffington Post
...away! He should enlist his mustache to help with the invasion. The Wall Street Journal used to be a good newspaper. Now that Rupert Murdoch has taken over, it’s nothing more than a soapbox for his views and the venom of his fellow believers. And I call for...
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Think Progress
...News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA) stock has struggled since purchasing The Wall Street Journal a year ago. According to Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff, despite holding one of the best run movie studios in Hollywood, News Corp's stock is trading at less than six-times-earnings.....
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Newsbusters
...And our love affair with the Kennedys was all a long time ago. “JFK went to Dallas 45 years ago last November. It is as if Jenna Bush … decided in the year 2053 to run for office … saying ‘I’m a Bush.’ The reaction, one assumes, would be: So what?”...
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The Daily Beast
...of that succession." Backbenchers were blamed for last year's aborted leadership spill, which would have installed Treasurer Kevin Foley into the top job. However, MPs who spoke to the Sunday Mail this week were united in backing Mr Rann's plan. "I don't know...
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Adelaide Now
...tips. "Matt's caught a few really good waves,'' Mr Swan said. The Treasurer is getting plenty of reading in, too. "I've polished off a biography of Rupert Murdoch and I'm three-quarters through the new John le Carre novel, A Most Wanted Man,'' he said....
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The Daily Telegraph
...circuit to make a ton more. The list is disgracefully long: Paul Bremer, David Frum, Ari Fleischer, Karen Hughes, Paul O'Neill, John Yoo, a parade of mediocres, ideologues, and dupes cashing in on their blindness and cowardice. In many cases the author has...
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Huffington Post
Last Month - About Rupert Murdoch
...Sox baseball team.” However(!) [Times Co. CEO Janet] Robinson does stress that the company is NOT for sale (you know, until it is). Could the Aussie Rupert Murdoch eventually purchase the Old, Gray Drunk Lady, sober her up, and merge it with the Post. ...
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Rathergate.com
...twelve scholars from Harvard, Yale and Columbia. The financing for the creation of the CFR came in part from J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Bernard Baruch, Otto Kahn, Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg. [13] Hoover accompanied banker Bernard Baruch, to Paris...
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Renew America
...a much better job than I thought he would," says James Ottaway Jr. "Things that I spoke about publicly that I feared [Rupert] Murdoch would do, that would be bad for Dow Jones and for the Wall Street Journal, have just not happened. Yet, anyway." Faculty in...
30 days ago from
Romenesko
...in the wind… Drudgereport.com, one of the top websites in the country is an aggregator of other people’s work. My friend Jeff Jarvis calls on websites to be ‘curators’. All of this is great…. but… But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original...
30 days ago from
BlogNetNews - Newsinnovation
...of Gawker, which wouldn't touch the story until somebody else (us) reported it, who's putting their money on Fox News head Roger Ailes. Other unsubstantiated guesses we heard surfacing from last night's party at Milk Studios to celebrate the new Murdoch book...
30 days ago from
Jossip
...he takes an enema before a long-haul flight.There you have it! To file in your TMI folder. We also managed to chat with Christie Hefner for a few minutes (full disclosure: we have written for Playboy) about her decision to step down as CEO from Playboy Enterprises. ...
30 days ago from
mediabistro.com
...Vanity Fair, took too easy a pen to Murdoch. Despite getting very good play by the press, Michael Wolff's new book on Rupert Murdoch is not burning up the best-seller lists. "The Man Who Owns The News" tackles a politically sexy topic: the reig... Despite...
30 days ago from
Huffington Post
...had any big layoffs throughout this new depression, and analyzed why they've been so fortunate. Praise them: News Corp: Rupert Murdoch has so far kept his staffing up. Then again, some of his properties (the New York Post) have been losing money forever, so...
30 days ago from
Sploid
...Jim Kelly, Marie Claire editor in chief Joanna Coles and Men's Health editor in chief David Zinczenko. Also on hand was Christie Hefner, fresh off announcing her plans to retire as CEO of Playboy Enterprises in January. I asked Hefner if her remarks about...
30 days ago from
Conde Nast Portfolio
...of Sir David Clementi, former deputy governor of the Bank of England and current chairman of the Prudential, and Sir Rod Eddington, former British Airways chief executive and long-standing director of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. No company in crisis...
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The Telegraph