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News Corp. quarterly net profit up 65%

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:31:24 -0800
News Corp. posted a sharp rise in quarterly net profit Wednesday as strong television and film growth offset declines in publishing and an $87 million charge related to the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.
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News Corp reaches more phone hacking settlements

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:35:39 -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - A further 15 politicians, sportsmen and celebrities reached settlements with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday over a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global media empire. The development increases the chances that the publisher may yet avoid further embarrassing details of its conduct from being publicly aired in court - although at ...
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BBC, Sky News and CNN Grapple With Twitter Rules

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:19:59 -0800
The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new social media guidelines this week, while CNN has suspended an analyst for controversial tweets.
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News Corp 2Q beats Street despite hacking charges

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:13:35 -0800
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said Wednesday that net income grew by nearly two-thirds in the final quarter of 2011, despite expenses related to ongoing phone hacking investigations of its U.K. newspaper unit.
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News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:48:05 -0800
News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends.
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News Corp. Settles More Phone-Hacking Suits, Delays U.K. Trial

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:40:36 -0800
News Corp.’s British newspaper unit settled at least 15 more lawsuits by victims of illegal voice- mail interceptions at its News of the World tabloid and delayed the first civil trial in the scandal by two weeks.
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News Corp team accused of risking journalist sources

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:12:09 -0800
LONDON (Reuters) - A team of executives and lawyers set up by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to clean up journalism practices at his London newspapers has been accused of putting at risk confidential sources in its dealings with British police investigators. Roy Greenslade, a former British editor who writes a blog for The Guardian, said a source inside News International, the company which ...
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News Corp. Settles Phone-Hacking Lawsuits Before U.K. Trial

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:19:26 -0800
News Corp.’s British newspaper unit settled at least 15 more lawsuits by victims of phone hacking at its News of the World tabloid, delaying the first civil trial in the scandal by two weeks.
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News Corporation Reports Second Quarter Net Income of $1.06 Billion

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:00 -0800
News Corporation today reported second quarter revenue of $8.98 billion, a 2% increase over the $8.76 billion of revenue reported a year ago. T
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Media Decoder Blog: For Campaign News, Viewers Tune to Cable

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:18:34 -0800
Cable news channels have narrowly passed local television stations as the most prominent sources of campaign news for the American people, according to the Pew Research Center.
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