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Britain's No More Page Three campaign challenges Rupert Murdoch to finally can topless photo feature

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has been coming under increasing fire from a group of campaigners seeking to end 'Page Three', a feature in British tabloid The Sun which splashes images of topless female models alongside serious news content.

Author

Nick Toner

Date

2014-09-02 11:43

A bad week in the House of Murdoch: falling revenues, a foiled acquisition bid, and a crowdfunding challenge

As a “challenging advertising environment,” and declining circulation revenue sting Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in its first year as a standalone company, idealistic entrepreneurs are snapping at its heels.

Author

Lucy Dean

Date

2014-08-08 15:21

Coulson sentenced to 18 months in jail on 'phone hacking' charges

Former News of the World Editor and Downing Street chief Communications Director Andy Coulson has been sentenced in London today, along with three other former NOTW news editors, charged in conncection with the hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's News International.

Author

Julie Posetti

Date

2014-07-04 11:39

Coulson guilty on phone-hacking charges while Rebekah Brooks walks free

The British Prime Minister's former head of communications, Andy Coulson is facing jail after being found guilty of a charge of conspiracy to hack voicemails.

Author

Emily Bennett

Date

2014-06-24 13:30

Fetishising The Saturday Paper

"Newspapers should be fetishised, they should be craved, they should be luxurious," says Erik Jensen, the 25 year old Editor of Australia's newest newspaper, The Saturday Paper.

Author

WAN-IFRA External Contributor

Date

2014-03-14 17:27

Australia: Outrage over front page might overstate Murdoch press's political influence

Newspapers owned by the Australian branch of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp publishing company have found themselves embroiled in a row over their coverage of the forth-coming federal elections. A series of front pages produced by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph have led members of the governing Labor party to claim that Murdoch is using his considerable media clout to sway voter opinion in favour of the opposing Liberal and National Coalition. For some Australian media analysts however, Labor’s accusations severely overestimate Murdoch’s capabilities.

Author

Amy Hadfield

Date

2013-08-12 17:07

Tribune Co. and News Corp: a tale of two very different splits

When the Tribune Company first announced its decision to split into two separate companies, one dedicated to broadcast and the other to publishing, comparisons were inevitably made with a similar move made by News Corporation in June. However, Ken Doctor’s analysis of the ‘newsonomics’ of the Tribune’s spin-off would seem to suggest that two cases may not be so similar after all.

Author

Amy Hadfield

Date

2013-07-17 10:36

News Corp turns to mobile in an attempt to make its news titles profitable

Robert Thomson, chief executive of the newly created News Corp, has been unveiling the company's mobile-first strategy in the hope of convincing investors that there is a future beyond print for the now independent branch of Murdoch-owned news titles and publishers.

Author

Amy Hadfield

Date

2013-07-02 15:37

Page 3 politics and the representation of women in the media

June 2013 has proven to be an interesting time for the portrayal of women in the news media. In the same week that German Chancellor Angela Merkel was feted by Forbes as the world's most powerful woman and second most powerful person, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard found herself ridiculed for an Australian Women's Weekly shoot that shows her knitting with a dog at her feet. The day after the article was published, Gillard was ousted as the leader of the Labor party.

Author

Amy Hadfield

Date

2013-06-28 17:00

Murdoch’s empire to split today

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will be split in two today, Wednesday 19 June, in order to separate the company’s thriving entertainment assets and its less lucrative publishing assets into two distinct empires: 21st Century Fox and New News Corp respectively.

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Date

2013-06-19 11:58

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