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At the Boston Herald, 30 years down the road
The Boston Herald has put together a video to mark the paper’s 30th anniversary of its current incarnation. In December 1982, Hearst nearly closed the doors before Rupert Murdoch swept in and rescued...
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For the Cape Cod Times, the beginning of the trail
Image via Today’s Front Pages at the Newseum You may have heard that a journalistic scandal is unfolding at the Cape Cod Times. A 59-year-old reporter, Karen Jeffrey, left the paper after editor Paul...
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The Daily was on the Internet — but not of the Internet
Rupert Murdoch this week killed off The Daily, the tablet-centric electronic newspaper that he unveiled nearly two years ago to great fanfare and even greater skepticism. It’s no exaggeration to say...
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Murdoch sells local papers to GateHouse investor
Rupert Murdoch is selling The Middleboro Gazette, the weekly that covers the Southeastern Massachusetts town where I grew up. I’m not sure Murdoch ever knew he owned it in the first place. It’s just...
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BBJ scores big on two local media stories
The Boston Business Journal has come up aces during the past week with two meaty stories on local media news. • A shaky future at the Globe. The first, published last Friday, found that confidential...
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The reaper visits Cape Cod, New Bedford papers
In September I asked (here and here) whether Rupert Murdoch’s 33 Dow Jones community newspapers might face cuts once they were sold to Newcastle Investment Corp., which is affiliated with GateHouse...
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Why Rupert Murdoch probably won’t buy the Herald
Published earlier at WGBHNews.org. Here’s the answer to today’s Newspaper Jeopardy question: “Maybe, if there’s a willing buyer and seller.” Now for the question: “With Rupert Murdoch getting out of...
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Why Murdoch could prove to be the savior of CNN
Rupert Murdoch at the 2009 World Economic Forum Previously published at WGBHNews.org. Could Rupert Murdoch turn out to be the savior of CNN? Not directly, of course. After all, his Fox News Channel is...
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Sale of ProJo a lost opportunity for local ownership
Previously published at WGBHNews.org. The online news site GoLocalProv is taking a well-deserved victory lap now that it’s been announced that GateHouse Media will acquire The Providence Journal from...
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How Rupe got away with it
Rupert Murdoch HACK ATTACK: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch. By Nick Davies. Faber & Faber, 448 pages, $27. For one brief moment, it looked as though Rupert...
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Approving the AT&T-Time Warner deal would save CNN, enrage Trump and leave...
CNN’s Jim Acosta. Photo (cc) 2016 by Gage Skidmore. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. Thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice, AT&T’s monopolistic dreams may not come true after all. According...
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There is so much local media news breaking today that it’s hard to keep it all straight. Late this afternoon came the huge announcement that Boston Herald publisher Pat Purcell, who bought the tabloid...
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Trump and Murdoch: Who’s using whom?
Rupert Murdoch. Photo (cc) 2015 by the Hudson Institute. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. The stench of corruption emanating from the White House is so noxious that it can be hard to focus on...
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How Murdoch family politics shape the Fox News dystopia
WGBH News graphic by Emily Judem. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. The New York Times Magazine’s massive 20,000-word takeout on the Murdoch media empire is what you might call a conceptual scoop....
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Fox News’ dangerous coverage of COVID-19 is going to get people killed
Photo (cc) 2007 by Jason Eppink The toxic combination of President Trump and Fox News has reached dangerous new levels, as the network has shifted from dismissing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Anatomy of a smear: How Rudy Giuliani’s latest Biden ‘drug deal’ (almost)...
Rudy Giuliani. Photo (cc) 2019 by Palácio do Planalto. Previously published at GBH News. It was last Friday at precisely 9:24 p.m. that the New York Post’s unverified and possibly false story linking...
View ArticleThe standoff in Australia shows why Google needs news more than Facebook does
I’m hardly the first person to make this observation, but there’s a reason that Google is trying to accommodate Australian news publishers while Facebook is fighting them tooth and nail: Google needs...
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How FCC ownership regulations helped shape the Boston media landscape
Photo (cc) 2008 by Dan Kennedy The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld a 2017 ruling by the FCC to loosen media ownership regulations, including an end to the so-called cross-ownership...
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Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist. And he’s giving Fox viewers exactly...
Tucker Carlson. Photo (cc) 2020 by Gage Skidmore. Previously published at GBH News. Not too long ago, Tucker Carlson would go on vacation — always long-planned, of course — whenever one of his rancid...
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A resignation provides some rare insight into the Murdoch media’s smear...
Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo (cc) 2019 by Prachatai. Vice President Kamala Harris made history Wednesday night just by sitting behind President Biden during his joint address to Congress. As the...
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