• Murdoch Not a Twitter Follower

    News Corp also not interested in selling MySpace.

  • Murdoch on Obama, Health Care, News Corp

    The News Corp CEO pulls no punches on his own Monday’s Fox Business Network.

  • AllThingsD: Homeys on the Digital Frontier

    CARLSBAD, Calif. — The AllThingsD conference, now in its seventh year, has earned a reputation for bringing the top minds, trends, entrepreneurs and ideas together for a couple of sun-kissed days north of San Diego. That’s the myth. Here’s the reality: Um, they really do. (Except there’s no sun to speak of at this time…

  • News Corp. Profits Drop 47%

    “Marley and Me,” “Taken” and “Slumdog Millionaire” boost film side.

    News Corp. Profits Drop 47%
  • Long Live Liz Smith

    No one in the gossip world can touch the hem of Liz Smith’s pantsuit. It is a sad day indeed, when the Doyenne of All Things Gossip loses her column in a major New York tabloid. This is outrageous! Especially coming on the heels of a racially charged editorial cartoon that provoked King Rupert Murdoch…

  • Is Murdoch’s FCC Waiver in Trouble?

    Angered by a cartoon that appeared last week in the New York Post, Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP chief executive Benjamin Jealous are meeting today with officials at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington. Sharpton says that they will urge the FCC to review the waiver that allows the News Corps’ Rupert Murdoch to own…

  • News Corp at the Crossroads

    The morning after the Oscars, the news of Peter Chernin’s departure sent a chill of anxiety rippling through the Fox lot.

  • Peter Chernin Leaves News Corp, Rupert Takes Direct Role

    The number two at NewsCorp announced that he was leaving the company after 12 years. Rupert Murdoch said he would take a more direct role.

  • Hollywood Execs Rake It In Despite Recession

    With the recession in full swing, industry execs should take a lesson from their new media counterparts.