Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Are Splitting Up
In a stunning bit of matrimony news, News Corp. overlord Rupert Murduch has filed for divorce from his pie bodyguard/third wife, Wendi Deng.
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Certain parts of the world reeled yesterday upon finding out that Rupert and Wendi Murdoch are getting a divorce. What happened? They seemed so happy, so perfect for one another. But despite their seeming wedded bliss, there were apparently problems. What sort of problems? Well that's what everyone is speculating about.
In a stunning bit of matrimony news, News Corp. overlord Rupert Murduch has filed for divorce from his pie bodyguard/third wife, Wendi Deng.
Charles and David Koch are very major players in the Tribune Company's sale of some of the biggest newspapers in the country, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, and according to a new report, they have debated using the media to spread their political message.
Just when you thought News International chief Rupert "Teflon Don" Murdoch might be powerful enough to beat the case, a suspect turned snitch is lighting a new fire under Murdoch's 2011 nightmares.
The bidding war for Tribune Company newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, looks to have another moneyed influencer beyond the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.
The Koch brothers are reportedly considering a bid for the Tribune Company newspapers — focusing on the crown jewels of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, or at least what jewels of power are left in the flailing newspaper industry — but they may face stiff competition in the form of a debt-free, full pocketed media power player named Rupert Murdoch.
Via Twitter, the News Corporation overlord said cartoonist Gerald Scarfe doesn't represent the views of the Times of London.
To honor The Daily's last day in existence, some members of its remaining staff have created this video sign-off — to the tune of The Sound of Music's "So Long, Farewell" — and, well, it's sad.
Here's some news out of the Tribune Company: As it emerges from bankruptcy, the embattled media conglomerate is looking to sell off The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. Paging Rupert Murdoch?
No matter what you may think of her ornery son, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was actually pretty awesome, and she passed away today at the age of 103.
While you weren't looking, Rupert and James Murdoch filed a motion to dismiss charges brought before them in a class action lawsuit over the epic News International phone hacking scandal.
Like we've come to expect, the latest resignation at News Corp is dramatic, political and slightly shrouded in mystery. It is not, however, at all related to phone hacking.
Rupert Murdoch finally decided who would inherit the perilous job of running his probably doomed new publishing company once the News Corp. beast completes it's transformation into a two headed hydra. Unsurprisingly, he went with his best newsman.
Rupert Murdoch can apologize (as he sort of did) about his "Jewish-owned press" tweet, but he still can't take it back. And because that tweet is out there, the big question now is which press, exactly, he was referring to.
With News Corp.'s late bid to absorb Penguin into HarperCollins thwarted, Penguin Random House is now a done deal. Pearson and Bertelsmann have confirmed previously announced plans to merge the two major publishers.
Rupert Murdoch wants to add two new gems to his soon-to-be-formed publishing company after News Corp. splits into two pieces, and his wandering eyes are focusing on the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News Corp.'s UK newspaper division and who is now charged in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, got an $11 million dollar severance package upon her departure, according to anonymous sources speaking with The New York Times's John F. Burns.
For a second year in a row, News Corp. annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday involved a lot of shareholders firing disapproving questions at Rupert Murdoch, only to re-elect him and the companies 13 other board members.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation, stodgy old man, is a big fan of the the rude, crude, drug-obsessed hipster bible, VICE.
After Rupert Murdoch threw his News of the World legal chief under the bus during his testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, police in London arrested that lawyer this morning, the 25th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal.
The only place where news outlets could possibly get in real trouble for printing those naked pictures of Prince Harry is in the U.K., where royal officials have warned the press not to print them. Not to be deterred, those papers are printing stories based on pictures which they can't run.
News Corporation's less-than-stellar fourth quarter makes clear the company's reason for wanting to split its print and broadcast operations, as its publishing unit hemorrhaged money thanks in part to last year's News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
London Mayor Boris Johnson may be literally dangling on a zip line at the moment, but at least he has the rumored support of Rupert Murdoch to become Britain's next prime minister.
News International sent out an email on Saturday informing staffers that Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of News International a string of other companies connected with the company's London-based newspaper holdings.
News Corporation is apparently doing some pruning, pulling the plug on its little-known internal news wire, and putting iPad newspaper The Daily "on watch," reports The New York Observer's Kat Stoeffel.
Rupert Murdoch has not been very nice to Mitt Romney on Twitter lately, and thanks to some reporting from Politico's Maggie Haberman, we now know why: The candidate did not impress the media mogul with his inflexibility on immigration.
The News Corp. board of directors has approved a plan to split the company into two pieces, one for the company's lucrative entertainment businesses and its not-so-lucrative publishing businesses.
The News Corp. board of directors is expected to decide within days whether to start the process that would split the publishing assets from the company. The board is meeting in New York this week in a session called to discuss the restructuring.
The Wall Street Journal — a key arm of the Rupert Murdoch media empire — is reporting that their boss is seriously considering splitting that empire's entertainment and publishing divisions into two separate companies.
Rupert Murdoch tweeted his latest complaints with the Romney campaign and said Romney doesn't even look like a challenger to Barack Obama's presidency.
Prime Minister David Cameron testified before the Leveson Inquiry today, an investigation he helped launched to look into media ethics and the News Corp. phone hacking scandal.
In his testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Monday, former British prime minister Gordon Brown denied ever having a phone call in which he allegedly threatened Rupert Murdoch, essentially accusing Murdoch of lying under oath.
Sir Harold Evans, onetime editor of the Times of London, has been given a chance to vent about his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry and he is pulling no punches, all but blaming the Australian magnate for the death of U.K. journalism.
Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, is giving testimony in the Leveson Inquiry, where he's very good at avoiding substantive answers.
A British parliamentary committee has released its report about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal and has laid the blame for the mess squarely at the feet of company leader Rupert Murdoch.
David Cameron went on the defensive against speculation that he conspired with James and Rupert Murdoch over their proposed take over of BSkyB last year.
In today's testimony at the Leveson inquiry, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch acknowledged there was a "cover-up" to shield the rampant phone-hacking taking place at his British newspapers. But his day of testimony before the Leveson Inquiry was also an opportunity to learn how the media mogul views his changing industry.
Email messages released Tuesday indicate that News Corp. executives at least considered dispatching top editors of The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Times of London, both News Corp. holdings, to advocate the BSkyB deal.
Today's chapter of the Leveson Inquiry has proven that it's not just papers that Rupert Murdoch likes to start "wars" with (we knew that), but what we didn't know was that even British Prime Ministers aren't immune from picking fights our favorite media warmonger
As James Murdoch's Tuesday testimony before the Leveson Inquiry gives way to Rupert Murdoch's on Wednesday, the UK press is salivating over the notion that David Cameron coordinated with the Murdochs on their takeover of BSkyB before he became prime minister.
U.K. regulators have opened an investigation into Sky News ahead of testimony from both Rupert and James Murdoch in the Leveson inquiry.
If this father-son News Corporation duo's responses during last year's parliamentary hearings are any indication, hack-gate watchers shouldn't expect to learn very much.
Of the three people arrested Thursday in the U.K. press corruption probe, the highest profile belongs to Duncan Larcombe, the royal editor for The Sun, who Scotland Yard made it clear was arrested based on information provided by his employer, News Corporation.
Today: Rupert Murdoch gets the movie treatment, Disney resurrects an amphibian, and Charlie Sheen is, well, winning.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International has been arrested for a second time in the ongoing probe into corruption at Rupert Murdoch's British papers, along with her husband and four others.
Rupert Murdoch turns 81 years young on Sunday March 11, an accomplishment for any human being but a true milestone the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who's had a rough go lately.
After James Murdoch's resignation from News International, new revelations ranging from the attempted suicides of staffers to an executive-level conspiracy against the police are adding a macabre layer to an already twisted story.
Journalists at News International are "on the edge" and two have reportedly tried to commit suicide as the inquiry into phone hacking and bribery at Rupert Murdoch's U.K. papers moves forward amid internal rancor that even a visit from uncle Rupert probably can't quell.
Rupert Murdoch may not be finished testifying before British authorities in the investigation into unethical behavior at his publications, Reuters reports.
Rupert Murdoch's youngest son is stepping down from the company's British newspaper division as revelations about phone hacking and bribery continue to emerge. Here's a look back at Murdoch's years-long tumble.
As the British investigation into corruption at Rupert Murdoch's News International reveals a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun, news that Scotland Yard loaned one-time Sun editor Rebekah Brooks a police horse has the rest of the U.K. press crowing about an inappropriate connection with the cops.
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