News of the World was the first British Fleet Street newspaper Rupert Murdoch bought, in 1969, as he began to propel himself from Australian newspaper proprietor to international media magnate.
Rupert Murdoch disliked coming to Downing Street in those days, according to someone who worked with him, because Gordon would always insist that he as well as Tony Blair should be granted a meeting.
Fox's Web site pledges the network will cut through jargon to speak to the average investor, echoing comments by owner Rupert Murdoch that the channel is for Main Street rather than Wall Street.
When the owners of the Wall Street Journal said they would never sell to Rupert Murdoch, plenty of analysts wondered if never really meant never.
Other investors in Summly, Mr. D'Aloisio said, include Wendi Murdoch, wife of Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive and chairman of Wall Street Journal owner News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of NewsCorp, which publishes the Wall Street Journal and owns Fox News, was similarly unimpressed.
It emerged that Ron Burkle, a supermarket magnate from California, has been approached by the employees' union at Dow Jones , the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, about the possibility of a rival bid to Rupert Murdoch's offer for the company.
Rupert Murdoch may want to add to his newspaper collection by taking over the Wall Street Journal, but his News Corp. is making its money from its movie business.
Just ask Marcus Brauchli, the Wall Street Journal editor whose sanctity was supposedly enshrined by an elaborate independence agreement between Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, only to have Murdoch sack him, with a generous golden handshake, a few months after taking control.
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The area, which runs east from Central Park past ritzy Park Avenue apartment houses to the East River, and north from 60th Street to 69th, is home to such plutocrats as David Rockefeller, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Perelman, Robert Bass and Sumner Redstone.
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