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By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2012
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to Wall Street Journal boss Robert Thomson to be head of the new entity and now [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Craig Oliver, culture secretary, James Harding, Maria Miller, newspaper company, Paul Dacre, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, Tony Gallagher
By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fox, ipad newspaper, may space, news corporation, news of the world, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the daily, Tom Mockridge
By Stephen Foster on November 19, 2010
Not many people know this but Patience Wheatcroft, just ennobled as a Tory peer by PM David Cameron, was my first news editor at a now extinct property magazine called Estates Times. Patience was obviously destined for high things (although none of us thought they would be quite this high). But she went, via the [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged daily mail, estates times, media week, Patience Wheatcroft, Patrick Sergeant, retail week, Robert Maxwell, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the times, Tony Salter, wall street journal europe, Will Lewis
By Stephen Foster on April 26, 2010
‘The Old Gray Lady’ as the New York Times is known in the US is flagging a bit, burdened by huge debts as the advertising tide has gone out and, its critics would say, hamstrung by too many hacks who only want to win Pulitzer prizes and the quarrelsome family ownership, which boasts no evident [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged financial times, New York Times, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal
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