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Bloomberg journalists have been able to access some of the details of what clients had been doing on the 315,000 Bloomberg terminals worldwide.

News Corp has lost an average of more than $20 million a month for the last 21 months.

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 […]

Rupert Murdoch has got a pesky lawsuit off his back. And all the latest media news.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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?

News Corp and Shine are cashing in on the network’s reliance on high-performing shows.

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.

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 …

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.