Your Only Report on China’s World Media Summit
China Media Project’s David Bandurski takes a caustic look at this week’s Second...
Rupert Murdoch
A Chinese Hacker’s Identity Unmasked
China and the United States have traded accusations of hacking following reports that The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post were all infiltrated by allegedly Chinese intruders. Google’s Eric Schmidt...
Wendi Murdoch, a Train Crash, and the Money-Seeking Western Media
Wendi Deng’s lightning counterstrike against the man, allegedly a comedian, who attacked her husband with a plate of shaving foam last week triggered a flood of media coverage, from profiles of the woman herself to...
Murdoch Urges China to Open Up to Media
From Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch urged China’s government to allow its media companies to take advantage of the opportunities in new media by addressing copyright piracy and a lack of...
U.S. Media See a Path to India in China’s Snub
In a reversal from their previous optimism about China, foreign media companies are becoming disillusioned with their prospects there and moving to other markets, notably India. The New York Times reports: Media executives still...
Murdoch: China, India Will Reshape the World
In his native country Australia, media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently delivered a speech about the future of India and China and their importance in remaking the global order. From AP: He said China and India are great countries...
How to Do Guilt-Free Business with Beijing
From SK-II’s problem in China and Japan’s international trade fight to rumors about Carrefour supporting free-Tibet activists, global companies are running into political problems inside China. From the Financial...
The Political Re-Education of Rupert Murdoch
Slate Magazine writes about the recent book by Rupert Murdoch’s former right-hand man in China, Rupert’s Adventures in China: How Murdoch Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife, which has recently been published in Britain...
Murdoch Apologized to China, New Book Claims
Media baron Rupert Murdoch apologized to Jiang Zemin and Li Peng in a 1997 letter, years after claiming that communications technologies were a threat to totalitarian regimes, according to a forthcoming book by a former News...
Rupert’s Adventures in China: How Murdoch Lost a Fortune and Found a Wife – Bruce Dover
From The Economist: FAR earlier than many, Rupert Murdoch sensed that China might be a unique financial prize. Even on his first visit in the mid-1980s, with his then wife, Anna, and their school-age children, the Australian...
Wendi Murdoch Speaks! Rupe’s Wife No Dupe: Her Take on Tibet, Hi-Tech Trains – David Foxley
At a New York opening of the film Nanking, Wendi Murdoch, wife of media mogul Rupert, expressed her views on China today. From the New York Observer: Mega-mogul Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Wendi (n√©e Deng), is very proud of the progress her native China has made over the past few decades. “Economically, everybody is doing well; […]
Murdoch’s Publishing Arm to Distribute Chinese Military Travel Book – AP
Another project brought to you by Rupert Murdoch as he makes his way back into the China market: A travel book published by China’s military will be distributed around the world by a publishing arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the People’s Liberation Army Daily said. …Murdoch’s pursuit […]
WSJ Editor Says Murdoch’s Buyout Won’t Affect China Coverage – AP
From AP, via International Herald Tribune: Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Wall Street Journal will not affect its coverage of China, the newspaper’s editor said Tuesday, rejecting concerns he could interfere in editorial decisions to strengthen his Chinese business interests. “My expectation is that there will be no change in our China coverage,” Paul Steiger, […]
News Corp.’s China Moves a Worry in U.S. – Joseph Menn (Updated)
The Los Angeles Times looks at Rupert Murdoch’s treatment of MySpace in China as a harbinger of what’s to come if Murdoch’s bid for the Wall Street Journal succeeds. The article implies that Murdoch’s...
News Corp Chief Hits Back at China Kowtow Accusations – Aline van Duyn and Joshua Chaffin
Rupert Murdoch denies to the Financial Times accusations that he would interfere in the Wall Street Journal’s China coverage if his bid for the paper is successful: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp’s chief executive, yesterday defended himself against accusations that he had allowed political pressure from the Chinese government to influence his business decisions. Speaking to […]
Murdoch Extends His Net to China – David Smith
From The Observer: MySpace, the world’s most popular online social network, has launched a version of its website in China, despite fears among human rights campaigners that users will be censored or spied on by the totalitarian Communist state. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, which owns MySpace, said last year that the company […]
Page Six, Staple of Gossip, Reports on Its Own Tale – James Barron and Campbell Robertson
From The New York Times: Page Six, The New York Post’s free-swinging showcase for gossip about canoodling celebrities and cheating spouses, ran a tell-all item yesterday about a subject it does not usually cover in eye-popping detail: itself. And it had some pretty juicy details: the editor of the paper patronized a strip club, and […]
Wall Street Journal China Correspondents Protest Murdoch Takeover
The China staff of the Wall Street Journal is speaking up against Rupert Murdoch’s attempted takeover of the paper. Talking Points Memo blog has obtained a letter from the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters to the Bancroft...
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