Tag Archives: Rupert Murdoch

With Ruper Murdoch what you see is usually what you get. While the old boy is capable of springing big surprises from time to time, they’re always in character. But his decision to pull 21st Century Fox’s $80bn bid for ...

I don’t know what 83 year-old Rupert Murdoch’s on but he should do the decent thing and share it with the rest of us. As expected, Murdoch (left) has sealed a deal in double-quick time to add all of Sky ...

I was beginning to worry about WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell – since Cannes he’s been strangely quiet. Did he overdo it on La Croisette? Perhaps he picked up a bug, because he certainly sounds a bit croaky in this interview ...

You can’t keep a Dirty Digger down (pace Private Eye) and now octogenarian media mogul Rupert Murdoch (left) is trying to buy film rival Time Warner for his 21st Century Fox empire for $80bn, a 25 per cent premium to ...

There may still be lots of trials to come in the never-ending phone hacking scandal even after the the conclusion of the first round of prosecutions which saw former News of the World editor Andy Coulson found guilty and his ...

Rupert Murdoch has tightened his family’s grip on his two new companies, News Corp which is based on newspapers including The Times, the Wall Street Journal and most of the papers in Australia, and film and TV business 21st Century ...

One-time British monopoly phone provider BT (British Telecom as was) took a huge gamble a couple of years ago by entering the pay-TV sports market, taking on BSkyB which had enjoyed a virtual monopoly having seen off smaller rivals such ...

This is comfortably the most revolting ad of this (or last) year – for the new horror film Devil’s Due – A Rosemary’s Baby for today’s teenies it seems. By New York viral marketing agency Thinkmodo. And I thought the ...

A very entertaining drama is being played out at London’s Old Bailey courthouse, best known for celebrated murder trials over the decades. This one, of course, involves lesser matters: charges of phone hacking, bribing public officials and concealing evidence of ...