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Murdoch: Digital Could Make Up 75 Percent Of Dow Jones Revs - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 19 Jun 2008 12:59 PM PST

Dow Jones gets about half of its revenues from its digital operations right now, and within a few short years, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert Murdoch expects his subsidiary…

@ D6: Murdoch On WSJ: We Can Charge A Lot More; Looked At Bebo For $100M - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 08:43 PM PST

Updated with video clips below courtesy of AllThingsD Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of D conference, and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), is speaking in the last keynote of the day…

Updated: News Corp. Withdraws Bid For Newsday; Cablevision Founder C. Dolan Confident; Deal Today? - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 11 May 2008 11:42 PM PST

Update: A slew of reports Sunday from a variety of media outlets (who could all be talking to the same person as far as we know) claiming that a deal…

Updated: Murdoch Comes Out Swinging On DJ; Defends Deal; Not Giving Up On Newsday - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 May 2008 01:45 PM PST

Rupert Murdoch is intent on changing the Street’s image of News Corp’s (NYSE: NWS) investment in Dow Jones and he’s using today’s earnings call to make the case that the…

Lauren Rich Fine On Rupert Murdoch’s Newspaper Addiction - 1 Comment
Posted By Lauren Rich Fine - Wed 23 Apr 2008 03:02 PM PST

Newspaper and internet analyst Lauren Rich Fine retired last year after 19 years with Merrill Lynch. Her post-ML activities include Practitioner in Residence at Kent State University’s College of Communication…

Wall Street Journal Paper Redesign: Launching Tomorrow; Broader Focus - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 20 Apr 2008 01:57 PM PST

The much-anticipated Wall Street Journal print redesign is launching tomorrow, as this long Newsweek story writes about, including positioning it as Rupert Murdoch’s full frontal assault on the New York…

Bear Stearns Media Con: Martha, Murdoch & The Kindle - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:09 AM PST

Martha Stewart, Rupert Murdoch and the Kindle from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN). If you told me this morning I’d have been able to fit these three into the same post, I’d…

Bear Stearns Media Con: Murdoch: ‘Happy To Be In Google Camp’; Overpriced Start-Ups; WSJ Social/ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 10 Mar 2008 08:23 AM PST

Listening in to the Rupert Murdoch webcast from the Bear Stearns Media Conference going on this week in Florida ... Yahoo-MSFT: Behind the scenes, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Yahoo…

Liberty-News Corp Close DirecTV-Stock Swap - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 27 Feb 2008 09:53 PM PST

Finally, after years of wrangling over a deal and more than a year after the $11 billion-or-so deal was struck, John Malone and Rupert Murdoch have erased the ties that…

Much Ado About Murdoch’s ‘Change Of Heart’ Re Free WSJ.com - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 16 Jan 2008 10:54 PM PST

We’re shocked, shocked to find that WSJ.com might not go completely free after all. I say that fully with tongue in cheek because I’ve never believed the Journal would go…

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Murdoch’s Chest Thumping: $2 Million Newspaper Ad Blitz On DJ Acquisition - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 14 Dec 2007 05:56 AM PST

News Corp is in a celebratory mood after closing Dow Jones’ (NYSE: DJ) acquisition yesterday: it did a reported $2 million global advertising blitz today, with full page congratulatory ads…

News Corp.: Dow Jones Now A Subsidiary - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 13 Dec 2007 03:39 PM PST

This just in ... a press release from News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) announcing the completion of the Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) acquisition. Put another way: nine months after Rupert Murdoch…

Murdoch’s Bad Bet: How News Corp. Lost Over $6 Billion On Gemstar - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Dec 2007 10:42 PM PST

Regardless of what happens with Macrovision’s (NSDQ: MVSN) proposed offer, Gemstar-TV Guide has proven to be a significant disappointment for Rupert Murdoch. News Corp., (NYSE: NWS) of course, owns a…

James Murdoch’s The Anointed One At News Corp; Takes Charge Of Europe and Asia - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 06 Dec 2007 08:04 PM PST

In a series of moves, Rupert Murdoch is in the midst of shaking up senior executives in News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) and is putting his son James Murdoch in line…

Updated: NWS-DJ: Murdoch: ‘We Expect’ WSJ.com Will Go Free; Have To ‘Modernize’ DJ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 13 Nov 2007 08:04 AM PST

Updated below: Last week, Rupert Murdoch told analysts and investors on the News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) earnings call that he was still considering whether to switch to a free WSJ.com,…

Earnings: NWS: Murdoch: MySpace Rocks, Facebook ‘Similar To A Phone Book’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 07 Nov 2007 02:39 PM PST

The News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) conference call is underway, with chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch giving his prepared rundown of the results for the quarter ending Sept. 30. He wants…

NWS-DJ: Bancrofts Dither, Hand Murdoch Right To Fill Their Board Slot - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Nov 2007 12:36 AM PST

About the only thing the Bancrofts are proving on their way out the Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) door is how shaky the family alliance was all along. The latest sign:…