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Twenty-First Century Fox Reports Rise in Revenue
Twenty-First Century Fox, owner of cable channels including Fox News as well as the Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, reported a better-than-expected 5.7% rise in quarterly adjusted revenue as ad...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Is Reportedly a Small Investor in Uber
Uber’s unusually close relationship with the media isn’t stopping at new board member Arianna Huffington. News Corp. nws chief Rupert Murdoch reportedly owns a small stake in the ride-hailing company,...
View ArticleDonald Trump and Megyn Kelly: A Marriage of Convenience
It’s not exactly Romeo and Juliet, but the tempestuous relationship between Republican presidential candidate and reality-TV star Donald Trump and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has its own sort of...
View ArticleRoger Ailes May Be Forced Out at Fox News This Week
Is the Roger Ailes-era at Fox News about to end? On Monday, New York magazine’s Gabriel Sherman cited two anonymous sources in reporting that the Murdoch family leadership at parent company 21st...
View ArticleUPDATED: Roger Ailes Reportedly Out at Fox News Amid Sexual Harassment Claims
UPDATE: Multiple outlets reported on Tuesday afternoon that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes would leave the cable news network at the end of this week, with a reported buyout of at least $40 million from the...
View ArticleFox News CEO Roger Ailes Is a Dead Man Walking
Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News, is apparently being forced out of the conservative-leaning network that he co-founded following sexual harassment allegations by a number of prominent...
View ArticleWhat Does the Future of Fox News Look Like Without Roger Ailes?
It was a scene rich with irony: The news that Roger Ailes was about to be forced from his job at the top of the Fox News network hit on Tuesday afternoon, just as Donald Trump was accepting the...
View ArticleRoger Ailes Resigns: A Timeline of His Downfall
Roger Ailes is officially done at Fox News. The chairman and CEO of the cable news network resigned Thursday, exiting with severe damage done to his career and reputation in the wake of multiple...
View Article21st Century Fox Says Business as Usual Even Without Roger Ailes
Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, avoided any detailed discussion during an earnings call on Wednesday of the departure of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes following sexual...
View ArticleReports Suggest Roger Ailes Ran Fox News Like a Feudal Kingdom
The powers that be at 21st Century Fox--that is, billionaire founder Rupert Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan--may have hoped that by cutting former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes loose...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Interesting New Allegations About Roger Ailes and Fox News
Roger Ailes is no longer at Fox News after leaving the company in July with a large settlement following a sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. But the full story behind the...
View ArticleFallout From the Roger Ailes Sexual Harassment Case Continues to Spread
A major news network dismissing its chairman and founding CEO after almost two decades due to allegations of rampant sexual harassment is bound to have some wide-ranging ripple effects on both the...
View ArticleThe Sulzberger Dynasty Tightens Its Grip on the New York Times
For some time now, the New York media world has been waiting breathlessly to see who would be anointed as the next publisher-in-waiting at the New York Times. On Tuesday, the waiting ended when the...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch Might Have Sunk $100 Million Into Theranos
Rupert Murdoch invested about $100 million into Theranos Inc., the blood testing startup currently being investigated for criminal and civil offenses, according to the Wall Street Journal--one of the...
View ArticleTwenty-First Century Fox Eyes Britain’s Sky for a Takeover
European pay-TV group Sky said on Friday it had received a takeover approach from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox, the company’s largest shareholder. Sky’s shares were up 26% at 10 pounds in...
View ArticleThese Are the Political Hurdles for Rupert Murdoch’s Fox-Sky Deal
Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox is racing to agree the final terms of a $14 billion takeover of European pay-TV company Sky, triggering what is likely to be the start of a politically charged...
View ArticleHere’s How Talks From New York to London Sealed the Sky-Fox Deal
British business veteran Martin Gilbert was at his desk in early December when he received the call he had been expecting for years. James Murdoch wanted to meet. Days later, Gilbert, the deputy...
View ArticleSky’s Not the Limit for European Media Mergers
Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Britain’s Sky is expected to drive traditional European media players to do their own deals to attain the scale they need to compete with online platforms like Netflix for...
View ArticleMurdoch Denies Pressuring UK Prime Ministers Ahead of Sky Submission
Rupert Murdoch said on Monday he had never asked a British prime minister for anything, seeking to play down his influence ahead of what is likely to be a politically charged approval process for his...
View ArticleUK PM May: Murdoch and I Did Not Discuss Sky
Prime Minister Theresa May did not discuss with Rupert Murdoch the proposed takeover of UK pay-TV group Sky by the tycoon’s Twenty-First Century Fox at a September meeting, Britain’s media minister...
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