News Corp’s Top PR Flack is Out, and Rupert Murdoch Remains At-Large on Twitter
2011 was a hell of a year to be the person charged with spinning the public image of News Corp, with that whole phone hacking scandal and all. Read More
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U.K. Police Arrest Murdoch Journalists as Part of ‘Operation Elveden’
Police in the United Kingdom made new arrests Saturday as part of "Operation Elveden." The dead-serious probe with the Tolkienesque name is digging into allegations Rupert Murdoch's Sun paid cops for inside information. News Corp's Management and Standards Committee reported the arrests and took credit in the process: Read More
More News Apps News Expected at Facebook Conference
Fox News was the first broadcasting network to rollout the breaking news ticker on 9/11, so it’s not exactly surprising that News Corporation is ahead of the game again. Following The Wall Street Journal’s launch of WSJ Social on Sept. 20, more news organizations will unveil similar ‘Facebook editions’ at Read More
The Wall Street Journal Gets Social With Launch of Facebook App
The Wall Street Journal announced Sept. 20 the beta launch of WSJ Social, a Facebook news application that allows users to read, share and comment on content within Facebook. “It’s an app that will live on Facebook,” said Daniel Bernard, digital product chief of the Journal’s digital network, at a launch party Sept. 19. Read More
Wendi’s Deng Determined At Her Movie Premieres
Wendi Deng Murdoch, who made Tuesday morning by slapping her husband’s assailant at the News Corporation hearings in London, hasn’t let her family legal drama affect her unduly. Last Wednesday, she attended a Cinema Society screening of the film she produced, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, with guests including Nicole Kidman (the Australian pal Read More
Andrew Wylie Has Advice For Rupert Murdoch
Speaking earlier today on BBC Radio 4, Andrew Wylie, the literary agent, expressed his thoughts on HarperCollins, the publishing house owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. According to The Bookseller, a British industry publication, Wylie said he had personally told Mr. Murdoch that HarperCollins should be "looked after a little more closely," and added Read More
NewsCorp.’s iPad ‘Daily’ to Use Drone Choppers for News Gathering?
News is trickling out about Rupert Murdoch's big iPad play, tentatively named The Daily, which is expected to launch in December under editor Jesse Angelo. The project has already lured some big name talent, and James Murdoch talked up the company's plans at a conference in Barcelona on Wednesday:
"We think it's Read More
Rupert Murdoch Explains His Political Donations: A Favor For a Friend
Rupert Murdoch was in Washington last night to speak at a Media Institute awards banquet (he talked about Waiting for 'Superman' and his affinity for Michelle Rhee) and he explained his recent political donations to Keach Hagey. Twice in this election cycle, Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation has donated $1 million to partisan Read More
Someone Find a Piano! John Legend Jams at The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘WSJ Café’
On Wednesday afternoon in the News Corporation building on Avenue of the Americas in midtown, John Legend walked quickly out of the glass doors of the sixth-floor elevator bank and into a small video studio across the hall. Two "On Air" signs were lighted up in the hallway. A man almost twice Mr. Legend's size Read More
Is Rupert Murdoch Going to Buy the Texas Rangers?
The Post reports that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is interested in buying the Texas Rangers. The theory goes that News Corp — which owned the Dodgers for one rather unforgettable seven year run from 1998 to 2004 — would like to offset the broadcasting fees it pays the Rangers to air their games on television (they Read More
Rupert Murdoch Teams up With Former Adversary James Ottaway Jr.
Figuring out the future of journalism makes strange bedfellows. Rupert Murdoch, meet your new business partner, James Ottaway, Jr.!
To wit: Executives at the News Corporation announced today that they have purchased a minority share of Journalism Online. Two of the other, significant investors in Journalism Online, Paid Content reported today, are Read More
Pony Up, Says Rupert
Paying for content is the way of the future, according to Rupert Murdoch, and it doesn't matter if that content is online instead of on paper.
"We're in the news business, not the dead tree business," he said today in a speech at an FTC workshop.
Murdoch would like you to pay for his papers' Read More
Ex-Editor Sues the Post
Former New York Post editor Sandra Guzman has sued both the paper and News Corp, alleging that she "was terminated on September 29 in retaliation for complaints about allegedly pervasive racism and sexism at the newspaper," according to Reuters.
The 38-page complaint, available at The Huffington Post, catalogues a vast Read More
Murdoch’s Monster: The Journal of the Plague Years
"This content hub will be the most powerful generator of news and information anywhere in the world,” said Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.
He was speaking from his offices in the World Financial Center on Liberty Street, for the past 24 years the home of The Journal. But he was Read More
Boxee Brings Back Hulu; Plans on Being Released on a Device by 2010
Standing on the stage at Webster Hall in front of a standing-room only crowd on March 24, Avner Ronen, the founder of Boxee, announced some big news: Hulu is back. Mr. Ronen, dressed in his Boxee shirt, beer in hand, released a new "alpha" version of Boxee, the open-source software that is Read More
