Rupert Murdoch
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Storyful records drop in revenues as accumulated losses rise
- Media & Marketing
- January 12, 2021, 14:53
Accumulated losses at Storyful, the Irish-founded media-gathering company owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, rose to €42 million last year. News Co(...)

There’s an American cliché: Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes. It emerged from the advertising industry in the Mad Men era. It’s what you do (...)

Dana Strong appointed chief executive of Sky
- Media & Marketing
- January 6, 2021, 16:45
Dana Strong has been appointed chief executive of Sky Group by its American parent company Comcast. Ms Strong, who previously headed up the Irish ope(...)

Mark Thompson: The media boss on Trump, Brexit and end of print
- Media & Marketing
- December 26, 2020, 05:30
“The last newspaper has just gone into the wood stove,” says Mark Thompson, self-described news junkie, erstwhile BBC director-general and up until re(...)

Trump will not go quietly, and is unlikely to fade from public view
- US
- December 26, 2020, 01:00
As the sun sets on Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States continues to reel from one of the most divisive presidential terms in its history. The(...)

Bertelsmann wins battle for Simon & Schuster with $2.18bn deal
- Media & Marketing
- November 25, 2020, 15:40
Bertelsmann has agreed to buy Simon & Schuster for almost $2.2 billion (€1.85 billion), with the owner of Penguin Random House insisting it is “ve(...)

Bush fires, Brexit and Fox News make 2020 pivotal year for Murdoch
- Media & Marketing
- November 24, 2020, 05:23
A “cancer on democracy” is a stark description of anybody, but former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd knows what he’s doing when he applies it to(...)

Maureen Dowd: Howling at the moon as America dumps Trump
- US
- November 8, 2020, 11:05
We expected more of Donald Trump. An epic, Jack Nicholson-in-the-Overlook-Hotel meltdown, not just Rose Garden-variety mewling. A conspiracy with gran(...)

When Donald Trump supporters gathered outside a vote-counting centre in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday night, they had a simple and perhaps unexpected(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Voters can get Trump out of office and our heads
- Opinion
- November 3, 2020
Caitlin Moran put it perfectly on Saturday night. Interviewed by Róisín Ingle for the Irish Times’s Big Night In, she invited us to “Imagine what(...)