Rupert Murdoch
Free of newspapers, 21st Century Fox shines
- Wall Street rewarded Rupert Murdoch's move to create a separate entertainment company, giving 21st Century Fox one of the richest valuations in the media sector on its first day of trading.
Investors set to weigh benefits of News Corp
July 1 - News Corp and 21st Century Fox will begin trading as two separate companies on Monday, giving investors the choice of a fast-growing entertainment business and a slower-growing but prominent publishing concern.
Ex-Murdoch editors lose bid to have UK hacking charges dropped
LONDON - Two former editors of a British tabloid newspaper shut down by owner Rupert Murdoch over a phone-hacking scandal lost a legal battle on Friday to have criminal charges against them dropped.
UPDATE 1-Cycling-Team Sky add another News Corp brand to sponsor list
LONDON, June 26 - Rupert Murdoch's entertainment business is stepping up its involvement with cycling's Team Sky, a further sign that big companies want to be associated with the sport as it recovers from a series of doping scandals.
Murdoch's Sun tabloid editor Mohan moves to new News Corp role
LONDON - Britain's top-selling Sun newspaper, one of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloids at the center of a large criminal investigation, said on Friday its editor Dominic Mohan was moving on to a role advising the chief executive of the new News Corp.
News Corp spinoffs start preliminary trading
- News Corp's publishing and entertainment arms began trading separately on a preliminary basis on Wednesday, one of the last steps before Rupert Murdoch's company officially splits in two on June 28.
Angelina Jolie stunt double sues News Corp over hacking
- A stunt double for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has sued News Corp over allegations its British newspapers hacked her phone, the first lawsuit in the United States against the company since the scandal broke two years ago.
Rupert Murdoch's aim: A divorce with little fodder for tabloids
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch appears to be seeking a quiet divorce, based on the lawyer he has chosen and the absence of incendiary allegations, people with knowledge of the case and experience of high-profile New York divorces said.
Rupert Murdoch's aim: A divorce with little fodder for tabloids
NEW YORK, June 14 - Rupert Murdoch appears to be seeking a quiet divorce, based on the lawyer he has chosen and the absence of incendiary allegations, people with knowledge of the case and experience of high-profile New York divorces said.
News Corp's Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from wife Wendi
NEW YORK - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Thursday filed for divorce from his wife of 14 years, Wendi, seeking to end a marriage that had been irretrievably broken for more than six months, according to his spokesman. | Video
Special reports
Inside Brooks's News of the World
LONDON - "It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again." That's how one former reporter describes the News of the World newsroom under editor Rebekah Brooks, the ferociously ambitious executive who ran the Sunday tabloid from 2000 to 2003. Full Article
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