X-Nico

4 unusual facts about News Corp.


Media conglomerate

According to the 2013 Fortune 500 list, The Walt Disney Company is America's largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, with News Corporation (now News Corp & 21st Century Fox), Time Warner, CBS Corporation, and Viacom completing the top five.

News America Marketing

News America Marketing, often referred to as just News America, is a marketing business owned by News Corp.

News Corp

It is one of two companies which succeeded the former News Corp, alongside 21st Century Fox—which consists of the old News Corporation's broadcasting and media properties, such as Fox Entertainment Group.

The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.


Amplify Tablet

The Amplify Tablet was developed by Amplify Education—the education division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, in conjunction with AT&T, to compliment its Common Core-based digital curriculum products.

Clarence W. Barron

The Bancroft family remained the majority shareholder of Dow Jones until July 31, 2007 when Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. won the support of 32 percent of the Dow Jones voting shares controlled by the Bancroft family, enough to ensure a comfortable margin of victory.

Gossip Center

Gossip Center (formerly known as Gossip Girls) is a celebrity news and gossip website in Slingshot Labs' DailyFill entertainment network, which is owned by parent company News Corp.

Jarret Myer

Their business philosophy was based on mixing the strategy of punk rock music labels like SST and Victory with aggressive marketing using the financial support of first News Corp and then MCA.

Lado Gurgenidze

Prior to Putnam Lovell, Gurgenidze served as Head of Technology Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and held other positions at ABN Amro advising such clients as Swift, Reuters, Moneyline Telerate, Wirtualna Polska, Marconi, Andrew Corporation, Merloni Elettrodomestici, News Corp, Global One, Golden Telecom and UPC.

Letizia Moratti

At the end of 1998, and for about a year, Letizia Moratti became chairman of News Corp Europe, a company headed by Rupert Murdoch and owner of Stream TV.


see also

MarketWatch

Through the Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp. ownership, MarketWatch is also affiliated with, among many other global media properties, the New York Post, The Times of London, Fox News Channel and multiple other 20th Century Fox spinoffs, and HarperCollins publishers.

Terry M. Moe

Joel Klein, CEO, News Corp Education Division, and former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools

Universal Life Church

This article, which profiles the Church during its transition following the death of its founder, was later republished by Beliefnet, a website owned by News Corp.