Hinton was Rupert Murdoch’s right-hand man at the height of the phone-hacking scandal. He resigned over it and feels he was made a scapegoat, but remains an admirer of the tycoonLes Hinton used to insist he would never write a memoir. The idea of adding his own title to volumes already devoted to his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, filled him with, if not foreboding exactly, then a certain feeling of futility. “I knew a lot of any such book would have to be about Rupert,” says the man who was for a long time known as Murdoch’s henchman. “But if you’re not joining the chorus of disapproval, how do you write about him in a way that doesn’t sound sycophantic? Who wants to sound like they’re the victim of a personality cult?” He runs a hand over his beard. “He deserves a lot of the criticism, by the way. There are no men who have achieved the kind of success he has who have not bruised a lot of people. He earned a lot of his enemies. But he’s also misunderstood. If I was going to write about him, I wanted to try and do it straight down the middle and for a long time I couldn’t really see how to do that.”But perhaps there was another way. What if the Murdoch years – he worked for the Australian-born tycoon for the vast majority of his 50-year career – were only a part of his book? What if Hinton began instead by describing his childhood in postwar Bootle, on Merseyside? This idea began to take hold even before his traumatic departure as chief executive of Dow Jones, publisher of... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian publisher Allen & Unwin has announced the acquisition of Murdoch Books. The sum... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has launched a review of anti-corruption controls in several of its publishing arms, including News International in London. Murdoch told News Corp staff in a memo on Wednesday that the company recently launched ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s move to split News Corp. into entertainment and publishing businesses may unlock the value he seeks. But the big imponderable in that shift could be Murdoch himself and his tainted legacy, say Wharton management professors Lawrence Hrebiniak and John Kimberly. Continue reading at Knowledge@Wharton
[ Knowledge@Wharton | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Critics of the company's dual-class share structure, which gives the Murdoch family 40 percent voting control, registered their concerns that nothing would change if the company split into entertainment and publishing businesses. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch outlined plans to split the media conglomerate's publishing and entertainment operations into two publicly traded companies, a decision he hailed as "the next transformative phase" in his empire's history. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch will be chairman of the divided News Corporation empire but will not be chief executive of the publishing arm, home to The Sun and The Times newspapers, the media company today (28 June) confirmed. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch is "not fit" to have "stewardship of a major international company", while his son James showed "wilful ignorance" over phone hacking, according to a Select Committee report published today. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More fallout from PhoneGate: News Corp. executive James Murdoch has "relinquished his position" as executive chairman head of News International, the conglomerate's British newspaper unit. News Corp., which also owns this Web site, says News International chief executive Tom Mockridge will stay... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rupert Murdoch’s son, James Murdoch, has stepped down from his position as executive chairman of News International, News Corporation’s UK publishing unit that has been rocked by a phone hacking scandal and police investigation. James Murdoch will focus on expanding News Corp.’s international... Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LONDON -- Fresh evidence of a "civil war" at News Corp. has emerged following what commentators have interpreted as an extraordinary attack by the Murdoch-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun on its parent company. In a signed article, published Monda ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to fire a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Obama and Google. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Murdoch, News Corporation's international chief executive, responded to, but did not fully read an email that suggested phone hacking went beyond a royal reporter in 2008, according to evidence published yesterday (13 December) by a parliamentary committee. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2011-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Murdoch stepped down as director of two subsidiaries that publish Murdoch-owned newspapers, a move that could possibly presage News Corporations eventual exit from British newspapers. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vanity Fair gets a compilation into the Kindle and Nook stores: Twenty previously published stories for $4, heavy on the Michael Wolff. Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2011-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Neill Denny Publication Date: Thu, 21/07/2011 - 08:45 John Blake has signed a book by a journalist-turned-lawyer on the Rupert Murdoch story, for publication next February. Called The Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Empire the book will be written by John Lisners, who worked for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 21/07/2011 - 09:00 Murdoch Books has bought a healthy living cookbook from "Grease" star Olivia Newton-John. Managing director Christine Jones bought US, UK, Australian and New Zealand rights from Louise Georgeson. LivWise will be published in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 08:05 Murdoch Books has further restructured its workforce following owner Matt Handbury's move into the role of c.e.o. last week. Christine Jones will become managing director of Murdoch Books UK, which has its UK offices in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Can The Daily save journalism? The iPad-friendly e-newspaper officially rolls off the press (kinda) Wednesday. Here are five things to know about the News Corp. and Apple endeavor. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Graeme Neill Juliet Rogers, chief executive of food and illustrated publisher Murdoch Books, is stepping down from the publisher with immediate effect after 10 years in charge. She will be replaced by Bruce Haslett, who ran the Time Magazine and Sports Illustrated businesses of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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