Rupert Murdoch

New York Activists Form National Coalition to Fight Big Ed-Reform Dollars

Parents, activists and educators who are against the so-called education-reform movement are forming a national coalition to combat what they perceive to be a corporate assault on education. They thought it'd be wise to organize their fight on a more national level -- especially since their oppone ... More >>

Murdoch Resigns from Major Newspaper Posts

A few weeks back, we examined a day in the tweeting life of NewsCorp Presidente, Rupert Murdoch - the notorious purveyor of conservative commentary and, recently, the subject of a widespread Parliamentary investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has consumed the entire company. Through his tw ... More >>

A Day in the Tweeting Life of Rupert Murdoch

When it rains, it pours.The CEO of NewsCorp is a recent inductee to the Twitter community, joining this past December and, for someone who owns a sliver of the world, still only has 250,000 followers or so. But such perfect timing: just as the Parliamentary inquiry into Murdoch's business was heatin ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Answers Twitter Question About Getting A 'Younger Woman'

More on the bizarre saga of Rupert Murdoch on Twitter. He has gone on the offensive for SOPA, he has, for a period of time, followed this blogger for some still unknown reason, and now he's answering questions about snagging younger women. Screenshot after the jump.

Murdoch Pie-Thrower Blogging From Jail

​Jonathan May-Bowles, the man who famously threw a pie in the face of Rupert Murdoch during the media mogul's hearing last month, has just updated his blog from jail. Bowles, who often goes by the name "Jonnie Marbles," posts on a blogspot domain called "Anarch*ish*." He has posted twice since ... More >>

News Corp Earnings Call: Rupert Murdoch to Face Wall Street for the First Time in a Year

​News Corp's quarterly earnings call with Wall Street will take place today, and the media conglomerate is putting 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch on the call despite the fact that he's "famous for his off-script comments." This will be Murdoch's first time on an earnings conference call since befo ... More >>

When Rupert Murdoch Was My Boss

Rupert Murdoch's Other Other Newspaper Invokes Starving African Children in Phone Hacking Cartoon

via​Newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and his friends just won't stop defending their master. Days after a Wall Street Journal editorial ran in defense News Corporation's handling of the UK hacking scandal, the Times of London comes today with the above political cartoon: "I've had a bellyful ... More >>

New York Observer Editorial Defends Rupert Murdoch; Jared Kushner is a Close Friend

​An opinion column in today's New York Observer titled "Murdoch and His Critics" calls the UK phone hacking scandal "deplorable" right away, but spends the remaining nine paragraphs defending News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, who happens to be a close personal friend of Observer publisher J ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Hacked: LulzSec Claims Media Mogul Dead in The Sun Website Takeover

​Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation boss currently embroiled in a rapidly spreading phone hacking scandal, got hacked himself today. Before it crashed from traffic, the website for his British newspaper The Sun was redirecting automatically to a replica of The Sun homepage (as seen above) fe ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani: Don't Rush to Judge Rupert Murdoch; Cops Seek Upper East Side Groper; Pet Store Praised for Ban on Drunk Buying

​• Rudy Giuliani, longtime friend of Rupert Murdoch, says we shouldn't so easily judge Murdoch with regard to that little hacking scandal but should instead, "Give people the presumption of innocence," and not jump to conclusions. (Full disclosure: a law and lobbying firm in which Giuliani i ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Apologizes to Family of Phone-Hacked Murder Victim; Buys 'We Are Sorry' Ad

​The News Corporation boss is in full-on contrition mode today -- now being under the strict PR guidance of Edelman and all -- after finally having allowed the resignation of News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, with more casualties like to come. For his part, Murdoch personally ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Hires PR Help, Gives Interview to Own Paper; FBI Investigating Phone Hacking

​ Rupert Murdoch finally gave an interview about the ongoing investigation into the News Corporation phone hacking scandal in the U.K. today, but he did so on safe terrain: his own. He told the Wall Street Journal, which he bought in 2007, that News Corp. has handled the disclosures of unethic ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Hires PR Help, Gives Interview to Own Paper; FBI Investigating Phone Hacking

​Rupert Murdoch finally gave an interview about the ongoing investigation into the News Corporation phone hacking scandal in the U.K. today, but he did so on safe terrain: his own. He told the Wall Street Journal, which he bought in 2007, that News Corp. has handled the disclosures of unethica ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch's Phone Hacking Scandal Now Includes Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Scotland Yard

​We noted this morning that the phone hacking scandal plaguing now-shuttered British tabloid News of the World, though it can be traced back for years, had metastasized into a crazy cancer including a possible September 11 connection, rattling Rupert Murdoch's entire News Corporation empire. L ... More >>

News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Now Includes Murdered Child, Terrorist Victims and War Veterans

Mr. Murdoch​Media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and News International, which include our local Wall Street Journal and New York Post, plus England's News of the World, Times of London and The Sun tabloids, in addition to Fox, all of its arms and beyond, are feeling the increased siz ... More >>

Kate Middleton Independent Headline Just a Nerdy Media Hoax; Adweek Debuts With Typo

​This morning, a bullshit story started circulating not solely because it was nonsense, but because the URL on the Independent website called it out as such, reading "utter PR fiction but people love this shit so fuck it lets just print it," or in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch and Co. Admit Celebrity Phone Hack; David Paterson Eyeing Move to Radio

​Rupert Murdoch's News International, which owns News of the World, one of England's biggest tabloids, apologized on Friday for hacking into celebrity voicemails, ending a months-long scandal that included some of the world's top athletes and royalty, as well as Murdoch's gigantic empire, stil ... More >>

The Daily Ditching iPad-Only For Android App ASAP; TBD.com Dismantled, Doomed

​After three weeks of publication as the world's first-ever iPad newspaper, reports are trickling out that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, will be migrating to a second platform, the Android tablet, in the second quarter of 2011. The news comes barely 20 issues since M ... More >>

I Dropped My iPad at the Launch of The Daily

​Rupert Murdoch looked regal. When I got to the revolving doors of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum it was swarming with people frantically operating smart phones, but I saw beyond them, to the screen assembled against the back wall. It was sixteen iPads wide by sixteen iPads high and there, s ... More >>

Gawker Media Rolling Out Redesign, The Daily Coming Tomorrow and NewsBeast Merged

New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car Blog​Gawker, The Daily and NewsBeast, oh my. Three of the year's biggest media launches so far have landed, albeit in different stages, on or around February 1, 2011, making for some vaguely exciting times on the internet, if you're into that sort of thing. Taken tog ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

New York Times Public Editor Flexes on Rupert Murdoch and Co.

Great idea for a cover about tabloids​In Sunday's New York Times, rookie public editor Arthur Brisbane has his first opportunity to show readers what he's made of by taking on a News Corp-sized, Rupert Murdoch-shaped complaint. The result is like that scene in the second Twilight where the inn ... More >>

Leaked Memo from Rupert Murdoch: I Find Your Lack of Faith in Fridays Disturbing

​News Corp chairman and unwitting prankster Rupert Murdoch doesn't get this whole "Summer Friday" thing. Back in his day, the workweek started on Monday, and didn't end until you'd enslaved a few nation-states (Saturday around 3PMish). Apparently, it's such a problem under him that he sent a m ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Is Watching: The Greatest Media Prank of All Time

​What do Rupert Murdoch, a former Page Six gossip columnist, a guy who works at the News Corp commissary, and the founder of College Humor have in common? They were all part of what might be the greatest media prank of all time.

Scoring the Wall Street Journal/New York Times Newspaper War: The Smacktalk Showdown

​So, while we wait to find out if anybody actually cares about any of this besides some media junkies and the players involved, it's worth noting that The Newspaper War has been a particularly dirty one! How dirty? Funny you should ask.

Rupert Murdoch Questions the Masculinity of Arthur Sulzberger's Ear, Maybe

​In what he chooses to consider a shot across Arthur Sulzberger's bow, Vanity Fair's Michael Woolf has discovered what he believes to be "[w]ithout a doubt" the "unmistakable... dimple and odd right ear" of the New York Times' publisher in a photo composite of ruggedness-challenged male faces ... More >>

I # NY: The 'Voice's Daily Twitter Roundup

​Twitter roundups are dumb, cheap traffic, and have been done by everyone else plenty of times before. Which is why it's our turn! Meet I # NY, our new Twitter roundup that's going to blow your mind. Or just put together a bunch of either incredibly familiar or incredibly foreign New York-cent ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch: Won't Die Until WSJ Quenches Thirst for Sulzberger Milkshake with $100K Coffee

​ Good Media Magnate Monday Morning! screams New York's website with media reporter Gabriel Sherman's deliriously fun cover story of an old, cranky, combative, elbows-out Rupert Murdoch who basically wants to destroy the New York Times with his most recent purchase, the Wall Street Journal, be ... More >>

Mort Zuckerman For Senate? We Can Guess Where That Story is Coming From

​Michael Barbaro and Tim Arango have only shared two bylines in their Times careers. On Saturday, the two reported that Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman "is considering" a run for Kirsten Gillibrand's U.S. Senate seat. In August 2008, they broke the story that Mike Bloomberg had been hold ... More >>

'Dough!': Time Warner and Fox Still At Impasse in Money Dispute; New Yorkers' TV Habits Imperiled; John Kerry Steps In

Meeting of the minds: On the latest edition of Fox's most serious news show, Smartline, Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and Homer Simpson discuss the dispute with Time Warner that threatens to keep Simpson's reality show from being beamed to millions of New Yorkers. It's the 11th hour of Time Warner's fig ... More >>

Murdoch Scores "Kleptomaniac" News Sites, Calls to Make Them Pay

​Everyone says newspapers are dead (except in New York, city of seven dailies), but Rupert Murdoch has found a way to bring them back to life: making "aggregators and plagiarists" (presumably meaning sites like Google News and Drudge) pay the content-providing news orgs whose works they blurb ... More >>

Enjoy Free NY Post While You Can: Murdoch Plans to Charge

​News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch tells the Financial Times that "we intend to charge for all our news websites," presumably including the New York Post -- and that "If we're successful, we'll be followed by all media." Murdoch already charges for some content at the Wall Street Journal. News Cor ... More >>

New York Post Plays Pretend-Populist on MTA Fare Hike

As longtime readers will know, even when not overtly racist, the Post is extremely right-wing (remember the "Axis of Weasels" cover?). They're usually pretty straightforward about it, but sometimes when they sniff an opportunity to associate their causes with a popular backlash, they get a little ov ... More >>

Stop the Presses: A Murdoch Apology

Not that he needs any help from us spreading the word, but anyone who long ago foreswore the New York Post at a newsstand or in cyberspace because of its many outrages, might be interested to take a gander at Rupert Murdoch's apology in today's paper for last week's wretched monkey cartoon:"Last wee ... More >>

Murdoch Offers Actual Apology for Monkey Cartoon

We had hoped never to hear of it again, but it must be noted that Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the New York Post, has apologized for the stimulus-ape-maybe-Obama cartoon that inflamed passions last week. In contrast to the sorry-you're-such-jerks non-apology the paper issued on Friday, Murdoch's mea ... More >>

Dow Jonesin': Rupert Murdoch reports big loss on 'Wall Street Journal'-related writedown

The pot's calling the kettle black: The New York Times runs a Reuters story this afternoon about Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. posting an $8.4 billion writedown on the advertising-challenged Wall Street Journal and other properties. The Times, as we know, is in even worse shape and has even reached o ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Can't Hold His Chardonnay

Mexican Buys Piece of Times; Treason Charges Expected

Newsday to Line Dolans' Bird Cage

Nikki Finke Wants Your Love

Parsing the Post's Obama Endorsement

Murdoch Closer to Journal Deal. 'Dough!'

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They Distort, You Decide: Doc Explores Fox News's Right-Wing Bias

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The Post's blunder was hilarious but not historic. So why has this story lasted?

N.Y.'s Power Couple

Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

Conservatives in Drag

Fox News Wears Veil of Neutrality