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LONDON, Jan 18- Rupert Murdoch risked a spat with directors tasked with protecting the independence of London's Times and Sunday Times newspapers on Friday after ignoring their disapproval and appointing temporary acting editors to both titles.
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Los Angeles, Jan 10- News Corp's 20th Century Fox led the Oscars race among Hollywood studios by scoring 31 nominations, including best picture nods for both "Lincoln" and "Life of Pi," setting the stage for the box office bounces that selected films often get.
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Los Angeles, Jan 10- News Corp's 20th Century Fox received 31 Oscar nods on Thursday, taking the lead among studios in nominations for the 85th annual Academy Awards next month, and positioning it for the box office bounce that films' selections often bring.
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Jan 4- Hulu Chief Executive Jason Kilar will leave the streaming TV company this quarter, he wrote in a blog post on the company's website on Friday, raising more questions about its future path under multiple owners.
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NEW YORK, Jan 3- Al Jazeera's announced plans to establish a new U.S. cable news channel via the purchase of Current TV isn't even 48 hours old and already it finds itself in a vicious battle to retain distribution rights.
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Dec 21- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said the publishing arm it plans to spin off from its entertainment assets would have lost $2.08 billion in the last fiscal year if it were a standalone company.
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Buffett told The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania that " Allentown is our kind of place," in response to a question of whether his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway was interested in the 84,000 daily circulation paper.
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Professor Stewart Purvis, professor of journalism at City University talks to CNBC about how the press should be regulated in the UK and whether the Prime Minister will back newspaper editors.
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Dec 3- Rupert Murdoch tapped Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson, a close confidant with little experience on the business side of publishing, as Chief Executive of his new publishing company, which will retain the News Corp name.
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LONDON, Dec 3- Rupert Murdoch turned from one straight-talking New Zealander to another on Monday, appointing pay-TV executive Mike Darcey to run his troubled British newspaper arm through what is likely to be another tumultuous period for the Sun and Times titles.
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Dec 3- Rupert Murdoch is keeping the News Corp name for his new publishing company in a nod to the important role that newspapers have played in building his media empire. "Many of you know that a belief in the power of the written word has been in my bones for my entire life," Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, wrote in a memo to employees obtained by Reuters.
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The chief executive of News International, the scandal-hit British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will step down at the end of the year, the company said on Sunday.
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NEW YORK, Dec 2- The chief executive of News International, the scandal-hit British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will step down at the end of the year, the company said on Sunday. Tom Mockridge, who has served as News International's CEO since July 2011, is leaving the company to pursue outside opportunities, News Corp said in a statement.
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Dec 1- News Corp is expected to name Robert Thomson, a close confidant of Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, to lead its new publishing company by the end of next week, according to sources fam iliar wit h New s Corp's plans.
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*Year-long inquiry calls for UK press watchdog backed by law. *Judge chides some UK press for "outrageous" behaviour.
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*Year-long inquiry calls for UK press watchdog backed by law. *Judge chides some UK press for "outrageous" behaviour.
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LONDON, Nov 29- A senior judge who presided over a year-long inquiry into the standards and ethics of the British press delivered his verdict on Thursday.
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Alex DeGroote, media analyst at Panmure Gordon, tells CNBC that the government is in favor of a light touch in terms of regulation of the press, but their coalition partners may not be of the same view.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he has serious concerns about new laws to regulate the media, risking a split in his coalition.
