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News Corp. third-quarter profit climbs; revenue up 14%
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is preparing to split into two entities, and the company's fiscal third-quarter financials illustrated why: Its cable television and film properties continue to flex their muscles while the publishing unit's profit exhibited...
Tags: Apple iPad, Satellite and Cable Service, United Kingdom, Fox News Channel (tv network), The Wall Street Journal
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Piers Morgan developing drama about Fleet Street tabloids for Starz
Art is imitating life again. CNN personality and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan is going to try his hand at producing a drama about the British tabloid business in the 1970s. Morgan has signed on as an executive producer of "Fleet Street," a drama...Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., Satellite and Cable Service, Richard Branson, Piers Morgan, AMC (tv network)
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William C. Cox Jr. dies at 82; helped seal Dow Jones sale to Murdoch
William C. Cox Jr., the patriarch of the Bancroft clan that controlled Dow Jones & Co. for 105 years and sold it to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in a decision sparking a family feud, died Wednesday at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., according to his...Tags: Hobe Sound, U.S. Air Force, The Wall Street Journal, Diabetes, New Corporation Limited
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News Corp. agrees to $139-million settlement of suit against board
Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch and other board members of News Corp. were sued by shareholders for lax oversight and alleged misdeeds within the sprawling media conglomerate. News Corp. on Monday agreed to settle the case. Now here's the punch line:...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Crime, Law and Justice, Rupert Murdoch
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News Corp. said to be nearing end of Justice corruption probe
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is get past more than two years of bruising scandals and a U.S. government investigation into alleged corruption as the company seeks to split into two publicly traded companies this summer. The Wall Street Journal reported...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, The Wall Street Journal, Justice System, Rupert Murdoch, Crime, Law and Justice
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Six more arrests in phone-hacking probe of closed Murdoch tabloid
LONDON – British police announced the arrest of six journalists on suspicion of phone hacking Wednesday in a new probe targeting a now-closed tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Authorities have identified “a further suspected...
Tags: Cheshire, Freedom of the Press, Rupert Murdoch, Newspaper and Magazine, Police Arrests
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News Corp. profits from cable, bulks up on sports
News Corp. continues to bet big on sports. Rupert Murdoch's media company is planning a new national 24-hour Fox Sports cable channel and has been adding regional sports networks to its portfolio. But a top company executive conceded Wednesday that...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Los Angeles Dodgers, News Corp., Baseball, Sports
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Police officer sentenced to prison in British phone-hacking scandal
LONDON — A senior police officer was given a 15-month term in prison Friday, the first person sentenced in the wide-ranging phone-hacking inquiry in Britain. Det. Chief Inspector April Casburn was convicted last month of illegally attempting...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, United Kingdom, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism
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More arrests in British phone-hacking scandal
LONDON — Two police officers and a journalist were arrested in Britain on Thursday on suspicion of corruption in the ongoing police inquiry into phone hacking by News Corp. tabloids and related scandals. A London Metropolitan police statement...Tags: United Kingdom, Government, Rupert Murdoch, Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice
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Senior Scotland Yard detective found guilty of misconduct
LONDON – A senior Scotland Yard detective was found guilty Thursday of trying to sell confidential information to a tabloid in the first conviction of a police officer in a corruption probe spawned by Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. A...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Public Officials, Government, Newspaper and Magazine, Rupert Murdoch
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Media matriarch and philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies at 103
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, has died at her home outside Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 103. The matriarch of the world's most prominent media family was well-known in Australia for her philanthropy, and...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Australia, The Wall Street Journal, Melbourne (Australia), Rupert Murdoch
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News Corp. name goes to publishing company; Thomson to be CEO
News Corp.'s soon-to-be publishing company will carry the name News Corp., while the company's television and movie properties will make up a separate global company called the Fox Group. Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is in the process of dividing...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Newspaper and Magazine, Rupert Murdoch, Global Expansion, Companies and Corporations
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