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Frontline on PBS has spent an hour looking at how the Murdoch/News International phone hacking scandal has evolved from the start.  As you w...

It's Friday which means another regurgitation from several years back. This one originally published on January 13, 2007: Nancy Drew ha...

Several publishers reported earnings this week. Simon & Schuster ( CBS ) Publishing revenues for the third quarter of 2009 increased...

From their earnings conference call yesterday ( SeekingAlpha ): If it is possible to charge for content on the web, it is obvious from the...

Looks like Harpercollins UK are set to announce a book social networking site similar to Goodreads.com and librarything.com. Named BookArm...

Harpercollins saw a 18% increase in fourth quarter revenues that helped the company finish the year with operating income flat with 2007. Re...

A parody of the Wall Street Journal is to be published in celebration of tax day tomorrow. Apparently some of the copies have leaked in adva...

What if CBS, NBC and ABC launched a joint web-based broadcast portal? Highly unlikely you say? Well, in the UK pundits might also have dismi...

Newscorp reported financial results for their fiscal 2007 (ending June 30th) and while understandably much of the conversation on their conf...

Update: Pop the corks: Reuters Reuters is reporting that the deal is done - then they changed their headline to 'deal expected Tuesday...

Apparently, things are on a knife-edge at NewsCorp. The deal deadline was set for Monday 5pm but not all the legal documentation was submitt...

So we should find out within the next week whether the Brancroft family will accept the NewsCorp offer , but I have to wonder whether some t...

Dieter von Holtzbrinck, the heir to German media conglomerate von Holtzbrinck has resigned in protest over the decision by the DJ board to r...

All media is now reporting the inevitable disclosure that NewsCorp has agreed terms with Dow Jones to acquire the company. Long live the Wal...

Apparently, I am not the only one that feels that the New York Times' ' expose ' on News Corp lacked any depth or provided new i...

While Pearson has not admitted engaging in any discussions there is much too much noise about this possible deal for nothing to be going on....

An interesting story in this morning's London Times that suggests that News Corp executives and Yahoo have discussed the combination of ...

I half jokingly suggested that Pearson would take a look at Dow Jones amid speculation that Pearson was next on News Corps list if the News...

Looks like there has been a change of heart in the Bancroft family and the sale of the company looks all but inevitable. Reuters From the ar...

In a recent article about Rupert Murdoch and his bid to acquire Dow Jones, The Economist newspaper reported as an aside that while at the Da...