Concerned that a merger would undervalue News Corp, investors are asking a special committee of independent board members to look more skeptically at the proposal.
Category: News and News Media
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How Did AT&T’s $100 Billion Time Warner Deal Go So Wrong?
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. That combination led to strategic miscalculation unrivaled in recent corporate history.
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New York Post Takes Aim at Trump, and Hits a Nerve
The paper’s increasingly harsh coverage has gotten the news media and political worlds talking about whether the Murdoch media empire has broken permanently from the former president.
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Steven Ginsberg Named Editor of The Athletic
Mr. Ginsberg, a longtime editor at The Washington Post, will start in the newly created role in January.
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PBS Names Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett to Host ‘NewsHour’
Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett are set to start as co-anchors on Jan. 2.
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Fred Hickman, Longtime CNN Sports Anchor, Is Dead at 66
He was teamed memorably with Nick Charles for many years on “Sports Tonight” and gained praise early on for his interviews with sports figures.
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Ellen Levine, 79, Dies; Editor With Keen Sense of Women Readers
She was Good Housekeeping’s first female top editor, earlier edited Woman’s Day and Redbook, and helped Oprah Winfrey create a newsstand sensation.
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Boston Globe Names NPR’s Nancy Barnes Its Next Editor
Ms. Barnes, senior vice president for news and editorial director at NPR, has also held leadership roles at the Houston Chronicle and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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Judy Woodruff Prepares to Sign Off as a ‘PBS NewsHour’ Anchor
At 75, “the last grown-up in Washington journalism” prepares to sign off after nearly a decade as an anchor of “PBS NewsHour.”
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Jane Gross, Sportswriter Who Opened Locker Room Doors, Dies at 75
She made news by entering a pro basketball inner sanctum to do her job. Years later, her mother’s physical decline led her to write about aging for The Times and in a book.
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Murdoch’s Outlets, Including Fox News, Extend Criticism of Trump
For a second consecutive day, the recriminations about Republicans’ unexpectedly weak Election Day performance played a prominent role on the pages and over the airwaves of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties.