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Murdoch hands out rewards

guardian.co.uk     56 mins ago   2 related          

Executives at Shine Group, the TV production company owned by Elisabeth Murdoch, have been awarded shares worth a total of more than £2m, according to documents filed at Companies House. Sebastian Scott and Henrietta Conrad...

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US networks launch bidding war for theking of late-night TV

independent.co.uk     1 hr ago          

Will Jay Leno go jaywalking? Five of the biggest US networks are attempting to lure the veteran broadcaster away from NBC, where he presents its flagship programme, The Tonight Show, in the sort of bidding war usually reserved...

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Alan Watkins: For Labour MPs, tomorrow never comes

When I was growing up, in what was then the coal-mining part of Carmarthenshire, there was a favoured promise: I'll do it tomorrow. What he (for the speaker was usually a man, not a woman) meant was: I'll do it when I feel like...

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The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along

alternet.org     6 hrs ago   6 related          

Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." He elaborated in an interview...

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China bureau chief named WSJ international news editor

unc.edu     9 hrs ago          

Rebecca Blumenstein, the current China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, will become the paper’s international news editor in New York later this year, according to an internal memo from managing editor Robert Thomson....

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Merrill Lynch In Talks To Share Its Stake In Bloomberg

Merrill Lynch is in negotiations to sell its 20 percent stake in Bloomberg L.P., the financial data and news company founded by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, as Merrill Lynch seeks to raise still more capital,...

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Pink 'Un Euromania is Unhinged

Like many in the City Guido reads the FT for the markets section and the excellent arts section. The political commentary however is often woeful - it is like the Indy in pink. This morning the leader castigates Cameron for a...

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Sir Simon Jenkins: History man

Sir Simon Jenkins is so grand that he really should be bought and preserved by the National Trust, so that successive generations can admire the wondrous architecture and exquisite furniture of his mind. Instead, the trust has...

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The Roving Eye: Special Legacy Media July 4th Edition

Boob tubers not so nifty over fifty. The ever valuable Strategy Page list came out with the following, embedded in an article that's otherwise about the progress in Iraq: "Most people just take what the news gives them, but...

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BSkyB considers €2.5bn Spanish bid

ft.com     yesterday   19 related          

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Ben Fenton in London British Sky Broadcasting, the UK satellite group, is considering making a bid of more than €2.5bn ($3.9bn) for Digital Plus, the Spanish pay-television platform, which would...

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