I wrote the other week about Rupert Murdoch's newspaper outfit, News UK, being reborn by putting a digital smile on Wapping's face.Now, with the company's move to London Bridge in mind, the publisher has put a smile on the face of Southwark Cathedral by donating £1,000 to its All Hallows community project.The donation coincided with News UK holding its annual lunchtime carol service at the church. According to a News UK press release, it was attended by 200 employees including chief executive Mike Darcey as well as editors from its "famous Sun, Times and Sunday Times newspapers." Those papers, with other News Corp businesses (Dow Jones and HarperCollins), will start moving next summer to The Place (aka Baby Shard) in a phased relocation from Wapping.But the significance of News UK's press release lies in its willingness to publicise its charitable works in east London, along with a pledge to do the same south of the river.It has been much more discreet about such matters in the past, and it would be unfair to call the press release a boast, because it isn't. The point of the exercise is altogether more subtle than that. It just wants to be seen as just like any other City-based corporate entity, investing a sliver of its profits in the local community.It is further proof of the company's continuing transformation after years of scandal, and its wish to put the past behind it (future court cases notwithstanding).But I couldn't let the Christmas concert pass without... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weeks after Fox merger scrapped investors say market value languishing because of underperforming businesses in portfolioThe shrinking of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation by 1,250 roles after a plunge in profits of almost a third serves as a stark reminder that the billionaire mogul’s abortive... Continue reading at The Guardian
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In one case the Courier-Mail columnist and Sky News presenter filled almost half a column with the unattributed reporting of a regional ABC journalistGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Sky News presenter and Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson has left... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-11-24 07:57:58 UTC ]
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Story nominated for News gong branded ‘national disgrace’ by Indigenous reporters. Plus: SMH all wrapped up in The EverestFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastThere’s one thing guaranteed at the annual... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2022-10-14 03:11:42 UTC ]
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For Christmas 1972, I was given a present that changed the way I viewed the world. It was a folder of facsimile documents called Tutankhamun & the Discovery of the Tomb. My family didn’t manage to visit the ‘Treasures of Tutankhamun’ exhibition at the British Museum that year, so my Jackdaw... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-27 01:02:55 UTC ]
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Vice Media spent 2020 putting news more at the forefront of its brand, but it still has work to do positioning itself in the digital media landscape. The post For Vice Media, bad-boy news culture is dead, long live news appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2020-12-30 05:01:28 UTC ]
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A scholar calls for breaking away from relentless “breaking news” to reconnect with the eternal good news found in faith and community. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
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IN 1889, the science fiction writer Jules Verne and his son, Michel, envisioned that, in a thousand years, there would be a personally curated newsfeed. What’s really remarkable about that futuristic prediction, says author Rob Brotherton in his new book, Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News, is... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
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CNN’s Brian Stelter contends that Fox aids Trump in manipulating the truth and the public. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-25 15:43:28 UTC ]
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James Murdoch, son of News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, is resigning from the family-controlled newspaper publisher’s board Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2020-07-31 22:55:44 UTC ]
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Both Hachette UK and Bonnier Books UK have revealed they are furloughing roughly 10% of their overall workforces. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-07 07:24:49 UTC ]
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Murdoch mastheads point finger at ABC, Facebook and the Guardian, among others. Plus: what KFC and bidets say about the state of journalismThe demise of AAP has unexpectedly ignited a war of words between media companies over who is to blame.According to News Corp – one of the major shareholders... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-06 02:34:45 UTC ]
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HarperCollins UK and Simon & Schuster have joined the rest of the Big Five publishers in announcing they are not attending the London Book Fair following the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 22:29:32 UTC ]
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Director Peter Barnes says board has not talked about attack on Fox News and News Corp’s climate coverageThe lead independent director of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, Peter Barnes, says the media group’s board has yet to discuss James Murdoch’s attack on the company over its stance on the climate... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-01-15 07:29:48 UTC ]
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In a response to most news publishers’ checklist of needs from a digital conduit to their content, News Corp is Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-12 18:30:12 UTC ]
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Documents obtained by ABC show departmental secretary asked for his thanks to be passed on to AFP team involved The head of the Department of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, congratulated the Australian federal police for conducting raids on journalists, new documents reveal.Correspondence obtained... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-29 04:27:34 UTC ]
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News Corp said it would not take a cut of ad revenue generated by articles from Knewz.com. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2019-08-23 08:34:39 UTC ]
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News Corp wants to give people an alternative to Google News and Apple News. The media company that owns Dow Jones Newswires and HarperCollins is working on its own news aggregation service, reported The Wall Street Journal. The service will be calle... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-08-22 21:14:00 UTC ]
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A bipartisan group of political publishers including Daily Caller, Mediaite, Raw Story, Alternet, Law&Crime, and the Washington Free Beacon have launched Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-06-21 15:26:03 UTC ]
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News Corp. said it is evaluating options for its News America Marketing business that could include a sale, which would leave the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and New York Post more purely focused on media while removing what’s been a troubled unit. The review of News America, which... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-18 20:05:16 UTC ]
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general counsel blamed internet platforms for hurting the news business by siphoning off profits and promoting less reliable news for readers in his prepared remarks for a congressional panel... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2019-06-11 20:09:08 UTC ]
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