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  • VIDEO: Murdoch Defends Glenn Beck, Disses Obama

    News Corp. chief tackles wide range of topics in interview with Sky News.

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  • Murdoch Weighs in on Wars With MSNBC, White House

    News Corp. chairman on clash with GE-owned cable net: “We did not start this abuse.”

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  • News Corp. Earnings: Income Up 11%

    Film division’s operating income climbs 55% on strength of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.”

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    News Corp. Earnings: Income Up 11%

  • Hollywood Meets the MBAs: The Mogul Has No Clothes (part I)

    A new book examines the low profitability of media companies and asks: Whose fault is it?

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  • Wall Street Journal ‘Pro’ Coming Next Month

    Latest in Rupert Murdoch’s grand plan to charge for all content online.

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  • Murdoch Pushes Fox Retransmission Fees

    At shareholders meeting, News Corp. chief says broadcast business model must change.

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    the Hollywood Reporter

  • Have Stock in Media? Read This

    More public media companies held their earnings calls this week. And, like last week, the reports from the executive suite were dire. Playboy warned that its magazine may lose 47 percent of its ad pages during the third quarter. News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire, reported a startling $3.4 billion fiscal year net loss,…

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  • Moguls Found on a Boat! (Summer ’09 Edition)

    Latest port of call: Amalfi coast. Grazer and Berkus are with Vivi Nevo; Ron Meyer has obviously made up with David Geffen. Check out the latest floating heads!

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    Moguls Found on a Boat! (Summer ’09 Edition)

  • Rupe Wants to Charge for Web Content

      News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch said that the success of WSJ.com has proven to him that people will pay for quality content online, and that he plans to use that pay model across the company’s news-driven web properties – and not just those of his newspapers.   “Quality journalism is not cheap,” Murdoch said…

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  • Olbermann Slams NYT, Denies ‘Cease Fire’ with Fox

    The most legitimate feud on cable news continues, “blood spray” be damned. Last night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann slammed the New York Times for printing a story about a “cease fire” agreement between executives at parent companies G.E. and News Corp, the parent companies of MSNBC and Fox News, which would in effect end the…

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  • Murdoch Not a Twitter Follower

    News Corp also not interested in selling MySpace.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Murdoch on Obama, Health Care, News Corp

    The News Corp CEO pulls no punches on his own Monday’s Fox Business Network.

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    Fox Business News

  • AllThingsD: Homeys on the Digital Frontier

    CARLSBAD, Calif. — The AllThingsD conference, now in its seventh year, has earned a reputation for bringing the top minds, trends, entrepreneurs and ideas together for a couple of sun-kissed days north of San Diego. That’s the myth. Here’s the reality: Um, they really do. (Except there’s no sun to speak of at this time…

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  • News Corp. Profits Drop 47%

    “Marley and Me,” “Taken” and “Slumdog Millionaire” boost film side.

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    Michael Speier
    News Corp. Profits Drop 47%

  • Long Live Liz Smith

    No one in the gossip world can touch the hem of Liz Smith’s pantsuit. It is a sad day indeed, when the Doyenne of All Things Gossip loses her column in a major New York tabloid. This is outrageous! Especially coming on the heels of a racially charged editorial cartoon that provoked King Rupert Murdoch…

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    Naomi Serviss