News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch would like private equity fund managers to pay higher taxes.
Looks like it could take awhile for new Twitter user Rupert Murdoch to get the hang of things.
A phone hacking scandal may have cost Rupert Murdoch his biggest-selling newspaper in 2011, but the billionaire media mogul managed to end the year with a modest addition to his empire -- an account on Twitter.
British newspapers print "complete nonsense" in support of agendas set by their owners, former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell said Wednesday.
The editors of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid knew that their reporters were hacking phones in search of stories, former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan testified Tuesday.
As a new inquiry in to phone-hacking begins, CNN's Phil Black says wider British media ethics will be examined.
News International chief James Murdoch rejected allegations Thursday his company behaved like a Mafia organization over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
A large percentage of News Corp. shareholders, upset by the hacking scandal in Britain, opposed the re-election of Rupert Murdoch's sons to the company's board of directors.
News Corporation's board and investors will gather today for the first time since the hacking scandal surfaced.
Rupert Murdoch is heckled by Occupy protesters dressed as Sesame Street characters in San Francisco. KGO reports.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch were both given substantial raises from News Corp. in its recently completed fiscal year -- although James Murdoch declined much of his raise, citing the recent scandals that buffeted the company.
Damaging allegations over phone hacking are continuing to mount against Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Last week, when Wendi Deng Murdoch stole the show at the parliamentary tabloid hearings with a sock to the face of her husband's pie-wielding aggressor, it seemed like the demure woman who calls Rupert Murdoch her "hubby" had suddenly turned fierce. In fact, Deng's impromptu reaction may have revealed more about her true self than she'd like to let on.
Wendi Deng's efforts to protect her husband, Rupert Murdoch, have changed opinions of her in her native China.
It's the slap that's been heard around the world: Wendi Deng Murdoch putting herself between her husband Rupert Murdoch and a protester armed with a shaving cream pie.
This week's performance by Rupert and James Murdoch at a British parliamentary hearing raises some questions that News Corp. will struggle to answer, regardless of the outcome of the phone-hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch says he closed News of the World because the company "had broken our trust with our readers."
Media baron Rupert Murdoch, his son James Murdoch and former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks testified Tuesday in front of a parliamentary hearing in London on phone hacking. CNN's Richard Quest, Dan Rivers and Jonathan Wald, who all attended the hearings, give their impressions.
Nothing illustrated Britain's love-hate relationship with Rupert Murdoch better than Tuesday's parliamentary select committee hearing into the phone-hacking scandal. The British public hate the persona of Murdoch, his power and influence, yet voraciously consume his products.
British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the ongoing phone-hacking scandal in a special session of parliament.
Rupert Murdoch is facing a two-front war. On the eastern front, he has denied knowledge before a House of Commons committee of phone hacking or payments by News Corp. to Scotland Yard while bemoaning the employees who failed him. He will probably escape criminal prosecution in the United Kingdom, unless some senior employee yet turns on him.
When a protester planted a plate of cream in the face of Rupert Murdoch, sustaining a ferocious slap from Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng in the process, he joined a long tradition of activists who have made their mark with pie.
Rupert Murdoch's wife tries to save him from a pie in the face. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
It's not a subjective point that most of the mainstream media has not liked media mogul Rupert Murdoch or his News Corp. empire, and for a very long time.
Rupert Murdoch, his son James and Rebekah Brooks testify before British lawmakers about illegal phone hackings.
John King asks former Wall Street Journal editor Joanne Lipman about Rupert Murdoch's appearance before Parliament.
British journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World are accused of hiring private detectives to hack illegally into the voice mails of thousands of people, ranging from top politicians and celebrities to murder victims and the families of fallen troops.
A man tossed light-blue shaving cream at media magnate Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary hearing Tuesday.
As the resignations pile up in Britain's phone hacking scandal, the whole saga has already been compared to a Shakespearean tragedy.
Seated side by side, News Corp. magnate Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, told British lawmakers Tuesday they were not to blame in a burgeoning scandal that has raised questions of how much top executives knew about illegal phone hacking and when.
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says he wasn't aware of wrongdoings at his company.
The phone-hacking scandal began two years ago as a lonely newspaper crusade in London, but when Rupert Murdoch testified Tuesday before British lawmakers, the story undeniably took the world by its ear with coverage spanning from Al Jazeera to Brazil to China, media experts said.
A plate of shaving cream is tossed at Murdoch as he faced questions about his newspaper's scandal
The Murdoch family is worth a lot less on paper in the weeks since the News Corp. phone hacking scandal emerged.
News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks went before lawmakers Tuesday to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal that has gripped the UK and beyond.
James Murdoch answers questions about 9/11 victims and members of the British royal family's phones being hacked.
The following are highlights from the testimony given Tuesday by media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, before a Parliament committee investigating phone hacking by journalists working for the Murdoch media empire:
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch told members of the British Parliament on Tuesday that he will not step down from his place at the helm.
The Watergate scandal saw the resignation of the president, the jailing of senior administration officials, the collapse of trust in the political class, a shift in the balance of power from one party to another, an increase in the reputation of the press and sustained pressure for freedom of information. All this took place over a period of years.
CNN's Dan Rivers takes us on a tour of the media area ahead of Rupert Murdoch's appearance regarding News Corp scandal.
News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks are set to appear in parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal that has convulsed Britain.
The News Corp. phone-hacking scandal took another dramatic twist Monday when the publishing empire got a taste of its own medicine: Hackers seized control of the website of The Sun, the sister publication of the recently shuttered News of the World.
The story is moving fast, and ironically Rupert Murdoch is caught in a web of his own making.
UK's most senior police officer resigns, citing allegations of links to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
CNN's Randi Kaye discusses the Murdoch scandal with a biographer.
There is one question we already know Rupert Murdoch will not be able to answer satisfactorily at Tuesday's parliamentary Select Committee. What responsibility did News International, and its parent company News Corporation, have in allowing a newsroom culture to develop where it was considered justifiable to hack into the phone of a kidnapped school girl? Or the phones of 7/7 victims? Or those of the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Rupert Murdoch apologized to the British public with full-page advertisements in seven national newspapers Saturday, a day after two senior executives resigned over a phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire.
The Dowler family's attorney Mark Lewis says Murdoch has apologized to the family in a private meeting.
Two key executives in Rupert Murdoch's media empire resigned Friday, and their former boss added public relations muscle as he began a series of apologies in the phone-hacking scandal.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that federal investigators are looking into requests by lawmakers to investigate News Corp., the multinational media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch.
News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch apologized for the phone-hacking scandal ignited by revelations about his News of the World newspaper in an advertisement to appear Saturday in British newspapers.
Rupert Murdoch has gone from power broker to pariah in a matter of days. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
The FBI has launched an investigation into Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. after a report that employees or associates may have attempted to hack into phone conversations and voice mail of September 11 survivors, victims and their families, a federal law enforcement source told CNN Thursday.
The phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire intensified in the United States on Wednesday as three senators and a congressman urged federal authorities to investigate whether one of Murdoch's U.S.-based companies may have violated anti-bribery and other laws.
CNN's Jim Boulden reports that the News Corp. withdrawal bid for BSkyB does not exclude a future bid.
Rupert Murdoch's media empire suffered a double blow Wednesday as Prime Minister David Cameron launched a wide-ranging investigation into the British press and Murdoch's News Corp. withdrew its bid to take over British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
It has been a tough couple of weeks for Rupert Murdoch. Not that anyone is going to have sympathy for the often-demonized News Corp. CEO.
British lawmakers investigating a phone hacking scandal Tuesday asked media baron Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks to testify before them, hours after former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused their newspaper group of illegally obtaining private information about him.
A former London Met police officer is not surprised to hear allegations that "News of the World" paid officers.
"The Guardian" and others report the scandal that hit "News Of The World" may hit more of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Travel the globe with CNN's Becky Anderson and see what media enterprises Rupert Murdoch controls.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch flew into London Sunday, hours after the final edition of the News of the World hit the stands, forced to close by a scandal over illegal eavesdropping and bribery that has outraged Britain.
CNN's Tom Foreman discusses the controversy surrounding Rupert Murdoch closing "The News of the World" amid foul play.
CNN's Richard Quest takes a look at the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch.
CNN's Jonathan Mann reports on the phone hacking scandal surrounding British tabloid "News of the World."
Britain's News of the World newspaper and its parent company News International will likely be seriously damaged by the phone-hacking scandal, analysts say.
CNN's Atika Shubert takes a look at how News of The World first began 168 years ago.
A powerful British media group is fighting new accusations that it illegally got information on members of the royal family and top politicians, after a lawmaker accused it of hacking.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and a gaggle of tech and media chroniclers gathered Wednesday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for a first look at the debut edition of The Daily, News Corp.'s experimental iPad "newspaper."
Editor's note: This week FORTUNE is publishing excerpts from its favorite business books of 2010. Today we revisit Sarah Ellison's blow-by-blow account of how media baron Rupert Murdoch wrested the Wall Street Journal away from the family that had controlled it for over 100 years.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is developing a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad and other electronic tablet devices, according to the Women's Wear Daily website.
Another of Rupert Murdoch's key lieutenants over the past 10 years is leaving his company, News Corporation. The company is expected to announce tomorrow that Gary Ginsberg, the media giant's executive vice president and chief marketing officer, is leaving the company at the end of the year.
Rupert Murdoch says more of his newspapers may start to charge for online content. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
Good, but not enough, the Rev. Al Sharpton said in response to New York Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch's apology for a controversial editorial cartoon published in the newspaper. Online Wednesday, some Post readers reacted similarly.
In the weeks that Rupert Murdoch was locked in unsuccessful negotiations to keep his longtime No. 2 at News Corp., the media baron also had to accept his daughter Elisabeth's decision to turn down a spot on the company's board, sources told Fortune.
The chairman of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, personally apologized Tuesday for an editorial cartoon published by the newspaper that drew charges of racism.
Rupert Murdoch isn't easily outfoxed. But the Bancroft family, which sold him Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, looks to have got the better of the media mogul.
It's the back half of December and that can only mean one thing: the annual cavalcade of "top 10" lists for the year. But what is especially intriguing this year is to review what wasn't: all the much-hyped trends that did not go exactly as planned remind us that the colliding worlds of entertainment, media and technology remain wildly unpredictable and easily oversold. Here are just a few of the top non-developments of 2008:
To use the oldest media mogul cliché in the metaphorical book, a just-released biography on Rupert Murdoch sets out to answer the question of what exactly is the media tycoon's Rosebud. That is, what has fueled Murdoch's astonishing global media conquest over the past half-century and where does his purchase last year of The Wall Street Journal fit in?
For America's media conglomerates, it's getting Darwinian out there - and the next stage of their evolution could come quickly.
The debate over the future of print media has generated some interesting sound bites of late: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told The Washington Post that ink-on-paper is dead in 10 years. Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, expressed cautious optimism at a conference sponsored by his Wall Street Journal that print will be round for "at least 20 years, and outlive me."
Rupert Murdoch has made the former owners The Wall Street Journal look foolish.
News Corp., the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has withdrawn its bid to purchase the Long Island daily paper Newsday, a News Corp. spokeswoman said Saturday
The financial pages have been full of anonymously sourced stories about Tribune Co.'s pending sale of Newsday. On Wednesday, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch spoke out about the deal. He publicly stated that a) his company was in "pretty advanced talks" with Tribune Co. CEO Sam Zell to acquire the Long Island daily, b) he expected to announce a deal within a week, and c) no, he didn't see any reason to raise News Corp.'s "highly competitively priced bid" of $580 million for the paper.
Everybody's been talking lately about how much News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch loves print. His company just paid $5 billion for Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Yesterday, he sounded confident that News Corp. would shortly acquire Newsday for $580 million from Tribune Co. Who better to spruce up these papers than a man who is often said to "have ink in his veins," right?
Fortune: The Newsday chaseupdated: Tue Apr 29 2008 14:05:00
Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, isn't going to let his archrival, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch snatch away Newsday without a fight. He's matched News Corp.'s offer to pay $580 million for Tribune Co.'s Long Island paper. The Zuckerman camp is also warning that Murdoch's pending deal with Tribune may not withstand regulatory scrutiny.
I saw Rupert Murdoch a couple of weeks ago in Los Angeles and asked him if he was having fun with the Wall Street Journal, his hard-won prize and current fixation. "Not yet," he quickly replied in his Aussie brogue. This week, Murdoch rattled the media world with the news the Journal's top editor, Marcus Brauchli, stepped down after just 11 months in the position and an accomplished career at the esteemed business daily. That came in tandem with word that Murdoch is close to a deal to buy Newsday, the Long Island-based daily, from Sam Zell's Tribune Co. for $580 million.
The top editor of The Wall Street Journal is planning to step down after less than a year on the job and four months after the paper was taken over by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch made a few concessions when he was trying to persuade the reluctant Bancroft family to part with Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal.
As Rupert Murdoch claims his hard-won prize The Wall Street Journal, his News Corporation conglomerate is planning an unprecedented newspaper advertising campaign that at least two newspapers that usually have little in common - the Financial Times and the China Daily - have so far declined to run.
More than a lot of CEOs, Rupert Murdoch is often willing to muse aloud about his plans. And, at a Goldman Sachs media confab in New York last week the topic of whether to stop charging people to visit the Web site of his newly-won prize, The Wall Street Journal, came up. The first thing the media baron said when asked about it is that he hadn't made is mind up yet, but that "it's certainly on the front burner to decide what to do there." Yet he also went on, as he has before, to point out the bull case for making the WSJ.com free and adding that it "looks like the way we are going."
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., received $32.1 million in compensation for the fiscal year ending June 30, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Readers of the The Sun, a British tabloid best known for its bare-breasted Page Three girls, opened their newspapers to see a young woman named Keeley Hazell wearing only green paint. Ms. Hazell is the face - well, not just the face - of the paper's campaign against global warming.
His bid for the paper launched a debate over journalistic ethics. But in the end, for the wavering Bancrofts, money talked
Stocks looked set to remain in recovery mode Tuesday ahead of a barrage of economic reports.
Fortune: Mogul rent controlupdated: Mon Oct 30 2006 11:12:00
Pity Rupert Murdoch. The News Corp. chairman and CEO has been caught between two Manhattan residences - his old SoHo loft, which he sold to fashion designer Elie Tahari for $25 million, and his new...
Always wanted that "power lunch" with a high-profile executive?
CNNMoney: 21st Century Foxupdated: Mon Aug 22 2005 13:04:00
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Welcome to the Internet, Rupert Murdoch. What took you so long?
A split between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his adult children over his third marriage raises question about who will lead News Corp. following the 74-year old billionaire's death, according to a published report.
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