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Murdoch’s eldest son denies return to News Corp fold
News Corporation tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son Lachlan says he has no intention of rejoining his father’s global media empire, telling Australian newspapers he has “moved on”. The tycoon’s plans, approved last month, to split his sprawling worldwide firm into separate media and entertainment entities fuelled speculation Lachlan, 41, would…
Rupert Murdoch blasts Australian government over ‘disgraceful and racist’ language
Global media baron Rupert Murdoch accused the government of his native Australia of “disgraceful and racist” language over a crackdown on visas for skilled migrants. The Australian-born News Corporation chief condemned the centre-left Labor government’s rhetoric about the tightening of the 457-class skilled visa programme amid claims of abuse by…
Rupert Murdoch hints at ending UK paper’s topless photos
Topless models have featured in the Sun for 40 years but the media mogul tweeted that they may belong in the past For more than 40 years, campaigners have tried to kill off the Sun’s practice of printing photographs of topless women on Page 3 – but to no avail.…
Rupert Murdoch apologizes for ‘grotesque’ Israel cartoon
Rupert Murdoch apologised on Monday for a “grotesque” cartoon carried in one of his British newspapers showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with Palestinian bodies. The acting editor of the Sunday Times newspaper, Martin Ivens, is due to meet with members of the Jewish community in Britain…
Rupert Murdoch’s philanthropist mother dies at 103
By Nigel Starck, The Guardian Philanthropist and mother of Rupert Murdoch, she was regarded as a national treasure in her native Australia Despite the many upheavals, setbacks and disputes in his long career as a media tycoon, there was only one person whom Rupert Murdoch regarded with real trepidation: his mother, Dame Elisabeth.…
News Corp. to close iPad newspaper The Daily
Rupert Murdoch’s online subscription venture was losing $30m a year and failed to win enough subscribers. Rupert Murdoch is to shut iPad newspaper The Daily from 15 December, admitting that it has failed to win enough subscribers to make the online subscription venture viable in its 21 months of life.…
News Corp. taps WSJ editor as publishing CEO
Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. plans to name Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson as chief executive of its publishing spinoff, the newspaper said on Saturday. The Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying that the name of the new publishing company, along with senior executive…
O’Brien and panelists mock ‘off his rocker’ Rupert Murdoch
CNN host Soledad O’Brien and her panelists spent some time having a laugh over Rupert Murdoch’s anti-Semitic Tweeting Tuesday morning. “He’s a little bit off his rocker,” O’Brien said of the NewsCorp CEO. “It’s awesome. I like that.” At one point, O’Brien read another tweet from Murdoch with faux-seriousness, intoning,…
Frank Rich: So-called ‘war on Christmas’ a dig at Jews
New York Magazine’s Frank Rich on Monday blasted News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch, describing the media mogul’s recent statements on Twitter as anti-Semitic. Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns Fox News and a vast array of other media outlets, said on Twitter that the “Jewish owned press” favored Palestinians over…
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In his 80s, with no clear successor, the media mogul and his spun-off newpaper operation are in a precarious position Matthew Parris went to the Orwell prizegiving the other day and suddenly saw red. Chris Mullin MP was giving a speech lauding fine investigative journalism – like that of this…
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