Bloomberg journalists have been able to access some of the details of what clients had been doing on the 315,000 Bloomberg terminals worldwide.
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News Corp has lost an average of more than $20 million a month for the last 21 months.
READ MOREMedia briefs: Monthly v Oz … News Corp split … ‘homocide’ …
Monthly ed: we weren’t spun by PMO. The Monthly’s editor John van Tiggelen has launched an email spray at The Australian for claiming the magazine’s latest cover piece — ”The Saboteur: Kevin Rudd’s Dirty War” — had “the fingerprints of Julia Gillard’s office all over it”. In his email, obtained by Crikey, van Tiggelen accuses The Oz political editor Dennis Shanahan […]
READ MOREMedia briefs: News Corp settles … Daily erection … UK TV hit …
Rupert Murdoch has got a pesky lawsuit off his back. And all the latest media news.
READ MOREMurdoch’s News plan avoids one question: why invest in papers?
From what has appeared in print and from talk among brokers, there’s a fear in the Murdoch camp that many investors, especially his big US supporters, don’t want to be found owning a print-skewing company.
READ MOREDyer: Bad News for Murdoch as empire split looms
Glenn Dyer argues you shouldn’t believe News Corp’s spin ahead of the split of its publishing and entertainment divisions.
READ MOREMurdoch ups the dowry for News Corp’s publishing arm
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is spinning off its publishing arm. But with ad revenue falling and the cost of newsprint going up, is it a wise business decision?
READ MOREUnder Murdoch, Ten sprays bullets in all directions
The Ten Network is in deep despair with an enormous job for new CEO Hamish McLennan ahead. So why is the company firing off legal letters around commentary of its woes?
READ MOREMore phone-hacking arrests: six ex-NotW staff questioned
Police have arrested six more journalists out of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that continues to dog the News Corporation business ahead of its demerger.
READ MOREBig investors target News Corp, backing Rupert’s rule
If the financial details of News Corp’s broadcast arm are encouraging, other shareholders will follow massive fund manager Blackrock by investing in the Murdoch behemoth.
READ MOREBad News group won’t set the market on fire for Murdoch
There were clues in News Corporation filings on Monday about how much the company’s spun-off publishing entity will suffer from a weak advertising market and declining circulation.
READ MORECreation of a Murdoch man: Robert Thomson’s rise and rise
Rupert Murdoch last week announced Australian Robert Thomson would be CEO of News Corporation’s new publishing division. Crikey spoke to those who’ve witnessed his career up close.
READ MOREMurdoch on News split: ‘we aren’t finished achieving what others deem impossible’
News Corporation has finalised its corporate restructure. In an internal memo obtained by Crikey, chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch pays tribute to staff he says “amaze and inspire me”.
READ MORENews Corp earnings show fork in the road: print down, TV up
News Corporation’s print businesses continue to struggle, propped up by stronger entertainment earnings. There’s already been one corporate split — could it prompt another?
READ MOREMurdoch tightens his control on Ten via programming deals
News Corp and Shine are cashing in on the network’s reliance on high-performing shows.
READ MORERupert, on his LA throne, banishes dissenters from his kingdom
That Rupert Murdoch was able to so easily dismiss dissent at News Corp’s AGM today was not surprising. It was the farce of the whole exercise, as Crikey found in the heart of Hollywood.
READ MOREMurdoch at 85: when the phone-hacking scandal might be over
Rupert Murdoch will be 85, going on 86, by the time the News of the World phone-hacking scandal investigation is completed in 2015. There’s a long way to go yet.
READ MOREPolice probe what Murdoch lawyer Tom Crone knew about hacking
Police investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal have nabbed another suspect, with the arrest of the paper’s former top lawyer Tom Crone.
READ MORERevealed: NotW made $US122m in year before closure
News Corporation has warned that it could make further cuts to the value of its goodwill of up to $US2.2 billion, mostly in its publishing businesses in Australia, the US and UK.
READ MORENews takes axe to assets with $2.9b cut in value
News Corporation has taken an axe to his company’s asset values ahead of the split, slashing the value of the company’s troubled publishing assets by $US2.9 billion.
READ MORERundle: the nightmare of the fatally weak at News’ top
It was a good Tuesday in London for that most ancient of Olympic sports — schadenfreude. Phone hacking charges have been laid and Rupert Murdoch’s empire wakes to a new nightmare.
READ MOREIs Rupert’s boardroom shuffle a last UK dance?
The direct influence of Rupert Murdoch on his newspapers has vanished from Britain, with the news that he resigned from several boards, cutting himself adrift from Britain for the first time since 1969.
READ MOREEd turned pollie … a TomKat special … Anderson Cooper comes out …
In today’s Media Briefs: extra, extra: mag’s special TomKat edition … The hack who went on the Twitter attack … Front Page of the Day … Dark times ahead for News’ publishing unit … Sentia sends Aussie jobs to Malaysia and more …
READ MOREMayne: demerger gives Rupert whip hand on dynastic carve-up
Always remember this: Rupert Murdoch loves newspapers and is a control freak who fanatically obsesses about sustaining his family’s powerful dynasty.
READ MORE‘We will wow the world as two, as opposed to merely one’
Rupert Murdoch has addressed News Corporation’s planned de-merger of print and entertainment assets in a letter dispatched to staff across the globe today.
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