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Rupert Murdoch turns 81 years young on Sunday March 11, an accomplishment for any human being but a true milestone the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who's had a rough go lately. His eightieth years was a hard one for Murdoc
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Rupert Murdoch gave his opinion on the Oscars and Steve Jobs in his first tweets. Picture: twitter.com/#!/rupertmurdoch Source: Supplied CURSE you, Rupert Murdoch! You just had to butt in, and now my booming career as a Murdoch minion is over. I've been
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Rupert Murdoch: Mogul gave evidence at Leveson inquiry into phone hacking. The First Minister has been criticised over a phone conversation with scandal-hit media mogul Rupert Murdoch to discuss the tycoon's new weekly newspaper. The call followed an app
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LONDON - Rupert Murdoch began work Monday on the first Sunday edition of his top-selling British tabloid The Sun, seven months after the closure of its scandal-ridden sister title News of the World. Publisher News International said the U.S.-based mogul
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Montreal Gazette
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LONDON - News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch on Friday told staff at his scandal-hit British tabloid The Sun that executives will continue to give police any evidence of wrongdoing and won't protect reporters found to have broken the law.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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"Nous allons perpétuer l'héritage glorieux du Sun en lançant the Sun on Sunday très bientôt", a indiqué Rupert Murdoch dans un email adressé au personnel de News International, la filiale britannique de son empire médiatique. Le patron de presse de 83 an
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The Huffington Post
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...This bill isn't just about online piracy, it seems. It's about the very DNA that's created the Internet we know it, and Rupert Murdoch needs that Internet for his company to thrive and, some might say, survive. As an incumbent president with a knack for social...
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...This bill isn't just about online piracy, it seems. It's about the very DNA that's created the Internet we know it, and Rupert Murdoch needs that Internet for his company to thrive and, some might say, survive. As an incumbent president with a knack for social...
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The Atlantic
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Rupert Murdoch is not a man who likes admitting failure, but the media mogul admitted to a pretty big mistake on Thursday.
Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive les
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The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/rupert-murdoch-myspace-screwed-up_n_1204140.html
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My father served in the U.S. Navy in the early 1950s, and he always said that the captain of the ship was responsible for anything and everything that happened aboard that ship. Didn’t matter if the captain had left explicit orders, and someone fouled-up
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Forbes
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...would imagine that preeminent among Rupert Murdoch's New Year's resolutions would be moving his News Corp. beyond the hacking and bribery scandal that blackened the media conglomerate in 2011. Murdoch's first public gesture as the calendar changed, though,...
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Los Angeles Times
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...version ). Chapter 38 of the biography references Mr. Murdoch repeatedly. For instance, a meeting between Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, and his son James Murdoch was described. The three were talking about the future of journalism, and Mr. Jobs later said in...
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Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. "Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital adventure on Twitter," reads her bio. Cute, right? Rupert was verified, Wendi was verified, and so began another cute chap
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ReadWriteWeb
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Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter last week. So did his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. "Joining my husband @rupertmurdoch in our new digital adventure on Twitter," reads her bio. Cute, right? Rupert was verified, Wendi was verified, and so began another cute chap
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...Murdoch has begun the new year by setting up in a new field of communications - he's started tweeting. FILE- Chairman of News Corp. business empire Rupert Murdoch, in this file photo dated Thursday, April 10, 1997. The 80-year old media mogul Murdoch has begun...
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TheNewsTribune.com
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...year by setting up in a new field of communications — he's started tweeting. This file photo taken on June 22, 2010 shows Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., speaking during a session at the New York Forum. This file photo taken on June 22, 2010...
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USA Today
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...year by setting up in a new field of communications — he's started tweeting. This file photo taken on June 22, 2010 shows Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., speaking during a session at the New York Forum. This file photo taken on June 22, 2010...
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...message that earned him his very own hashtag. Joining Twitter on December 31 as the verified @rupertmurdoch, perhaps Rupert Murdoch's New Year's resolution involved building his personal and professional brands. At least that's how his two-days old feed reads,...
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...message that earned him his very own hashtag. Joining Twitter on December 31 as the verified @rupertmurdoch, perhaps Rupert Murdoch's New Year's resolution involved building his personal and professional brands. At least that's how his two-days old feed reads,...
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The Atlantic
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...Murdoch capped off one of the most trying years of his life by doing something totally unexpected: he joined Twitter. In the waning hours of 2011, Murdoch's Twitter account suddenly popped up. The account is verified, and Twitter's chairman, Jack Dorsey, assured...
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The Huffington Post
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...Murdoch: cynical eyebrows were raised when he gave assurances over the independent future of Sky News. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Two decades ago Rupert Murdoch was sitting at his desk in Wapping as a financial firestorm engulfed his company. The...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/30/rupert-murdoch-monopoly-news-corp
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...proposed business ideas. Valid for a total of 6 people." "I look forward to this opportunity to have a friendly lunch with Rupert Murdoch, along with five of my invited guests," Media Matters founder and CEO David Brock said in a statement. "I will soon contact...
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CBS News
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...group which is a persistent critic of media mogul Rupert Murdoch said Thursday that it had paid 86,000 US dollars and won a charity auction to have lunch with the News Corp. chairman. Media Matters for America said it submitted the winning bid for the lunch...
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The Age
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...on both sides, the political system has to deal with the consequences—as we'll discover once again beginning in January. In our current tabloid political culture, the Rupert Murdochs of the world win. In the long run, it's not clear if anyone else does....
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The Atlantic
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News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch has likely never acknowledged (at least not publicly) that he has failed at something, particularly when it involves a market worth billions of dollars, but he appears to have conceded defeat in his attempt to build a
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GigaOM
http://gigaom.com/2010/10/21/rupert-murdoch-admits-he-cant-compete-with-google/
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...here Friday. Faced with criticism that the donations had political motivations and no business benefits, chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said they were "in the interest of the country and all the shareholders." He also argued that they have "nothing to do...
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Hollywood Reporter
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...else is there left to say about Rupert Murdoch. He’s like the Lindsay Lohan of the media world in his ability to generate copy about his life and loves and Shakespearean family relations. The latest is a New York cover story penned by Gabriel Sherman that...
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Mediaite.com
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...magnate Rupert Murdoch has never liked the New York Times. In fact, ever since the Times editorialized against his bid to purchase the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch has had "an Ahab-like obsession" with destroying the Gray Lady, according to New York Magazine....
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Gothamist
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...sleepwalking into oblivion if they feel that they can buck an irreversible trend of content becoming free?" Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is said to be readying a lawsuit against Google just in case talks between his News Corp and the online leader should happen...
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mediabistro.com
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...Unlike most heads of big public companies, who strive to be reassuringly bland, Rupert Murdoch has always cultivated a shoot-from-the-hip image. But his displays of pique over Google (GOOG) and its "theft" of proprietary content have been less spontaneous...
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Daily Finance
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/inside-rupert-murdochs-war-on-google/19375993/
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...when Brits go on holiday and see what everyone else is served up. They may not be impressed with the bloated management atop the Corporation, but they would rather have the BBC any day than Rupert Murdoch’s various and infinitely forgettable channels....
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Big Think
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... Rupert Murdoch—the dashing, daring, fearsome and fearless press baron, the mogul among moguls—will celebrate his 79th birthday next month. As he approaches his final years at the helm of his empire, he finds it crumbling around him. nagement style is said...
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Rupert Murdoch and Gordon Brown engage in deep conversation. Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
"I have got a great deal of respect for what he has done and I hope that he has some respect for me."
"He has regular communications with Rupert Murdoch,
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/nov/13/brown-murdoch-on-each-other
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I turned my Boing Boing post about Murdoch's mad pronouncements on the Internet into a column for the Guardian, called "For whom the net tolls."
What, exactly, is Rupert Murdoch thinking? First, he announces that all of Newscorp's websites will erect
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Boing Boing
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Rupert Murdoch: No fan of Google News. The News Corp. chief says he will likely tell Google's spiders to buzz off.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said he would consider blocking Google spiders from indexing his companies' content.
The long summer hasn’
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Christian Science Monitor
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/10/rupert-murdoch-get-lost-google/
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NEW YORK -- News Corp. will start seeking broadcast network
retransmission fees from cable and satellite TV providers as the
broadcast business "can no longer be supported" by advertising
dollars alone, chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said here
Friday.
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Hollywood Reporter
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Has Rupert Murdoch lost his magic touch? As absurd as it may to suggest that one of the world's most successful media moguls may be in any kind of danger I argue in my London Evening Standard column today that his News Corporation business is facing a
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Greenslade
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/oct/07/rupert-murdoch-news-corporation
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The truth is, Rupert Murdoch really adores Gordon Brown, despite The Sun's endorsement of David Cameron. There may not be another politician in Rupert's nearly 60 years of helping to shoehorn the leaders of three countries into office who has
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/whatever-james-wants-james-gets-ndash-and-that-includes-bringing-the-sun-out-for-the-tories-1797363.html
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War is Rupert Murdoch’s natural state. When he launched the Fox Broadcasting Company, in October 1986, he went to war against the hegemony of CBS, ABC, and NBC. With Fox News he crossed swords with CNN’s Ted Turner. At Sky, his satellite-TV system in
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Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/11/michael-wolff-200911
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As the Chairman of the New York Post, I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me.
How much more rope can Rupert Murdoch afford to give Glenn Beck and his brand of race-baiting demagoguery?
Last week, we
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sassoon/can-murdoch-flirt-with-ra_b_277609.html
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With its commercial rivals buffeted by a falling economy and the political cycle turning ever more hostile, the BBC was always going to be an easy target this year. So, if nothing else, James Murdoch's timing in accepting the invitation to give a
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/31/james-murdoch-attacking-bbc-ofcom
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has called the British Broadcasting Corp. a threat to independent journalism.
James Murdoch, the 36-year-old executive in charge of News Corp.'s businesses in Europe and Asia,
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/business/story/1477366.html
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Rupert Murdoch collected his usual $US8.1 million ($A9.6 million) fixed pay — meaning that with the exception of Westfield founder Frank Lowy, Murdoch’s fixed salary significantly exceeds the base salary received by any ASX-listed company CEO. While
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Crikey
http://feeds.crikey.com.au/~r/CrikeyDaily/~3/jJ4IclUQUSo/
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Last Wednesday, oft-vilified media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corp. — parent company of (among others) the Times of London, the New York Post, and Fox News — will soon begin charging readers for access to all its news sites.
Reaction was
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The Phoenix
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/87991-Mr-Respectable/
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Rupert Murdoch is the wizard of Oz. The 78-year-old has spent a lifetime building the world's most powerful media group, transforming a single antipodean newspaper into an empire that transcends national boundaries. Like his literary equivalent, his
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Reclaim the Media
http://reclaimthemedia.org/corporate_power/consolidation/rupert_murdoch_protector_print0932
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"We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having 1 million [subscribers], having at least 10 million to 15 million in every corner of the earth.... Will you lose $50 million to $100 million in revenue? I don't think so. If
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Techdirt
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090805/1904295782.shtml
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...“allowed to push it [newspapers] over the edge” with its online presence. The Sunday Times lost £16m in 2008-2009. In response Rupert Murdoch is to start charging for access to his news sites across his raft of titles. The BBC remains free online. “Quality...
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Anorak
http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/219157.html
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www.ft.com — Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content of his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one of its stronger papers within the year.
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/ft_com_media_murdoch_vows_to_charge_for_all_online/
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NEW YORK News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch told analysts
and reporters Tuesday that the company intends to start charging
subscription fees for all news Web sites in its ailing newspaper
division and for venues such as the Fox News Channel
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AdWeek
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/e3i2249411481f0057b7ec6b95116fda053
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...Rupert Murdoch doesn't tweet. When it comes to micro-blogging service Twitter Inc., News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) CEO Rupert Murdoch isn't among those who "get it." Asked at Allen & Co.'s annual Sun Valley, Idaho, shin-ding for media moguls if he was going to buy...
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DealScape
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