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Eliminate the Middle-Man

News Corp. appoints the guy who would "manage" the Wall Street Journal's managing editor—Robert Thomson—as the new M.E. himself.

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Murdoch Muscles In
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Putsch Comes to Shove
The resignation of the Journal's managing editor says a lot about what's to come at the newspaper.
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Turmoil at the Journal
Managing editor to step down. A Murdoch man is expected to take control. Is it bad news?
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The Newsday Battle
News Corp. and Tribune are close to a deal in which the former would buy Newsday for $580 million.
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Lessons From the Past
Former Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil saw how Murdoch uses his papers to push his personal views.
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Did Rupert Murdoch's Journal putsch end up driving off someone he would prefer to have kept?
Rupert Murdoch is interested in taking the Long Island tabloid off Tribune Co.'s hands.
Is there something about being a media titan that makes one excessively, er, considerate of one's spouse?
Rupert Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal's D.C. bureau that he has no conservative agenda to push in the news pages.
The Far Eastern Economic Review, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, killed a review of a negative book about Rupert Murdoch.
Did Rupert Murdoch undertake an unseemly kowtow to get News Corp. into China? A new book says "yup."
Murdoch will call for more critical coverage of the New York Times and other outlets that compete with News Corp. properties.
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This might be a first: has an acquisition by Rupert Murdoch ever before been welcomed by a newspaper's unions?
Rupert Murdoch has installed his handpicked man, Robert Thomson, as the boss of WSJ editor Marcus Brauchli.
Bloomberg's occasional toe-dips into consumer-facing media have never taken off.
After spending "millions" on a redesign, the WSJ.com will launch with a simple aim: "to drive more traffic in a bigger way."
Dan Gross thinks Murdoch paid a "jerk premium" to take over Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.
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