News Corporation Completes Deal for 49% Stake in YES Network
Date: 20 November 2012
By Amy Chozick and Richard Sandomir
Amy Chozick
The acquisition adds to News Corporation’s collection of regional sports networks, and may help fuel its ambitions of creating a national sports network to challenge ESPN.
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The Breakfast Meeting: News Corp. Awakens, and When Publicity Photos Mattered
Date: 20 November 2012
By Noam Cohen
Noam Cohen
Also, a documentary about David Geffen, to be shown on PBS, depicts a mogul’s life both familiar and not.
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Fashion News We’re Reading Now
Date: 20 November 2012
By The New York Times
What’s we’re reading now, from Marc Jacobs’ new ad campaign to the latest counterfeit designer bag bust.
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Two Former Top Murdoch Aides Will Be Charged With Bribery of Public Officials
Date: 20 November 2012
By Alan Cowell and John F. Burns
Alan Cowell
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks will be charged with paying bribes of up to $160,000 to public officials, in addition to several earlier charges.
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YES Deal Gives Yankees Haters New Grounds to Hate
Date: 20 November 2012
By Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick
For baseball fans who already disliked the Yankees, a k a the Evil Empire, adding News Corporation — with its chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, and influential Fox News channel — more than enough to get an online storm brewing.
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Tech Start-Ups Find a Home on the Prairie
Date: 21 November 2012
By John Eligon
John Eligon
From Des Moines to Omaha to Kansas City — a region known more for its barns than its bandwidth — a start-up tech scene is blossoming.
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Justice Alito, Citizens United and the Press
Date: 20 November 2012
Recent comments from Justice Samuel Alito Jr. of the Supreme Court again raises the role of the news media and how they are organized under American law.
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Election Audience Votes, and Web Clobbers Print
Date: 20 November 2012
By David Carr
David Carr
The Web lapped newspapers as a primary source of coverage in 2012, but a fair amount of that online traffic went to, you guessed it, newspaper sites.
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Inside H.P.’s Disastrous Deal
Date: 21 November 2012
By William Alden
William Alden
The $10 billion acquisition of Autonomy is the latest major headache for H.P. | An insider trading case against a former SAC Capital portfolio manager appeared to move prosecutors closer to Steven A. Cohen. | Investors should take note of Goldman’s decision to withdraw from the I.P.O. of MegaFon. | The task force organized by President Obama to pursue financial misdeeds has taken aim at Credit Suisse.
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What They Said: Indian Politicians on Ajmal Kasab’s Execution
Date: 21 November 2012
By The New York Times
Indian politicians and lawmakers on the hanging of the Pakistani gunman behind the Mumbai 2008 attacks.
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