So here is an intriguing media rumor: Rupert Murdoch is angling to purchase Gawker Media. Yesterday, at least two media reporters approached at least two Gawker Media employees about a potential sale to Murdoch’s News Corp—or, more likely, 21st Century Fox. Apparently the rumor was first posted to Secret, the…
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says Fox News “absolutely saved” the Republican Party by giving “voice and hope to people who didn’t like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN.”
Last week, we learned that former British prime minister Tony Blair emailed called disgraced News Corp. executive Rebekah Brooks in 2011 to offer his "unofficial" consulting services as she faced arrest over the company's metastasizing phone hacking scandal. And last year, we learned that Blair had also been allegedly
It's been three months since Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch slipped the surly bonds of matrimonial discord with Wendi Deng, ceding her custody of their two children and Fifth Avenue triplex. Lesser men might buckle under the ennui now. Murdoch bought a sick fucking condo.
Australia’s Financial Review reports today that a massive cash payout of $882 million AUD (approximately $800 million USD) to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has decimated the Australian government’s annual budget:
RadarOnline is reporting that 90-year-old Viacom founder Sumner Redstone paid Bo Dietl, the private investigator and Fox News contributor, to smear Rupert Murdoch after his beloved New York Post went after Redstone in 2008. Because if you want to smear your rival, your best bet is hiring his own employee.
Journalist Mark Seal’s long Vanity Fair profile of Wendi Deng, the 45-year-old ex-wife of News Corporation titan Rupert Murdoch, reveals how the couple splintered over Deng’s newfound desire for the company of famous men—and, apparently, her penchant for elder abuse.
In December The Daily Mail reported that News Corp billionaire Rupert Murdoch had divorced his third wife, Wendi Deng, over some kind of “intimate note” indicating Deng’s crush on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Today Vanity Fair published a portion of the impassioned letter:
Here's a story. On the afternoon of Friday, November 21, 2008, an email bearing the subject header "confidential information" turned up in Gawker's tips inbox. The sender's email address was "harveydent701@yahoo.com," a dummy account. The only text in the email itself was "please consider the attached information."…
Hidden messages in newspapers are nothing new. Just ask John Forbes Nash, Jr.
It pays to marry—and divorce—Rupert Murdoch. In June the 82-year-old billionaire and News Corporation owner announced that he and his wife of fourteen years, Wendi Deng, were divorcing. According to Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, the ex-couple settled the terms of their separation in a Manhattan court today, one of…
David Folkenflik, the media correspondent for National Public Radio, has spent his career tracking the rise of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling, multinational media empire. Now’s your chance to pick his mind.
82-year-old billionaire and News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch has been thinking about death lately. Over the weekend he wondered, on Twitter: “Can we all live to 120 or more? Probably not, but our children for sure.” It looks like Murdoch’s taking his chances. Buried within a USA Today column about the media…
Fox News, like its president Roger Ailes, is sensitive about its reputation. So sensitive, according to NPR’s David Folkenflik, that in the late aughts, as part of a new, more muscular PR strategy, the channel instructed its staff to write thousands of pro-Fox comments on websites large and small, wherever anything…
It’s been a big year for Australian millionaire Clive Palmer. He decided to build a replica of the Titanic. He also announced the addition of an animatronic dinosaur park to his Coolum resort, complete with a T-Rex named “Jeff.” And, if polls are any indication, he might see his political party—the Palmer United Party
The New York Times is reporting that Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch's soon-to-be third ex-wife, has hired a new divorce attorney, signaling a potentially messy battle over the couples' prenuptial agreement, their two postnuptial agreements, and the custody of their two daughters.
The long-awaited criminal trial of former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, who face conspiracy charges related to hacking the phones of murder victims and celebrities alike, is slated for this September. According to a rumor spreading around News Corp, things could get salacious.
In response to questions from Parliament over a secretly-recorded meeting where he admitted to knowledge of illegal news-gathering tactics and railed against the police, News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch wrote, "I regret my choice of words."
Rupert Murdoch is being ordered to appear before Parliament (again) because of the secretly-recorded meeting where Murdoch admitted knowing his papers bribed police and public officials. Fourth-wives-in-training, brush up on your pie-swatting skills.
ExaroNews a British investigative web site, has just published the full transcript of a secretly recorded meeting between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the staff of The Sun, a U.K. tabloid owned by News Corp., in which Murdoch admitted that he was aware for decades that journalists from his newspapers had been…
