Murdoch

British newspapers and the BBC wrote a letter to the U.K. government asking it to examine Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting Group, saying the deal could harm the public interest.

Skirting campaign finance laws, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, has found an entirely legal way to put millions of dollars directly into the bank accounts of leading Republican candidates like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. He hires them.

Rupert Murdoch has a history of contrarian gambles that pay off big. But with newspaper advertising in an historic slump and online ad spend overtaking print for the first time, is his new price war with The New York Times a smart move?

(With our sincere apologies to Dr. Seuss) Every Who down in Whoville liked Google a lot, But the Grinch, who lived up in a penthouse, did not. The Grinch hated Google, didn't find Google pleasin' -- Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on...

Give Rupert Murdoch this much: His plan to stick it to Google while simultaneously increasing his newspapers' revenues is clever. Very clever, in fact. But that doesn't mean it's good. Murdoch is reportedly in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) about a pact whereby News Corp. (NWS) would de-index its...

Can Microsoft (MSFT) gain much needed market share for its Bing search engine by signing a deal with News Corp. (NWS) and other news publishers to remove their web pages from the Google (GOOG) search index and give Bing an exclusive on links to The Wall Street Journal? That's the kernel of an...

Jeez, is it really that slow a news week? Sure, Rupert Murdoch made some news on News Corp.'s fiscal-year-end earnings call yesterday, declaring that the company will adopt pay models for all its news websites by this time next year, including the websites of Fox News, the Sun and News of the...

Everyone wants to know when Rupert Murdoch is going to make his long-dreamed-about play for The New York Times. Murdoch himself denies he's plotting anything of the kind -- but could he have a different target in mind? That's the view of Baldwin, N.Y-based media appraiser Kevin Kamen, who...

Rupert Murdoch has always shown a remarkable ability to shrug off public relations problems with seemingly genuine indifference. This impressive skill is being tested as the mounting furor over illegal mobile phone hacking by Murdoch-employed journalists is turning into one of the biggest PR...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is shooting down speculation that he is interested in acquiring his nemesis The New York Times Co. (NYT). Speaking to TheStreet.com, the News Corp. (NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch denied reports by Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff that he covets what he views as the...