Does Rupert Murdoch really want to kill the New York Times?
‘The Old Gray Lady’ as the New York Times is known in the US is flagging a bit, burdened by huge debts as the advertising tide has gone out and, its critics would say, hamstrung by too many hacks who...
View ArticleWSJ’s Patience Wheatcroft becomes Tory Lady Wheatcroft – and quits
Not many people know this but Patience Wheatcroft, just ennobled as a Tory peer by PM David Cameron, was my first news editor at a now extinct property magazine called Estates Times. Patience was...
View ArticleMurdoch closes iPad paper The Daily – Rupert doesn’t really get new media...
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold...
View ArticleMurdoch’s newspaper cultural revolution speeds up – now Times editor Harding...
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already...
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