Mediagazer: Lessons from Rupert Murdoch's approach to business, which grew News Corp into an empire that shapes policy and popular opinion (Eric Peckham)

2:10 AM ET, February 13, 2017

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Rupert Murdoch's ties to Trump family, including Ivanka's former role as trustee for a Murdoch trust, raise questions about how he will guide his media empire — The ties that bind the most powerful media mogul in the world to the leader of the free world just keep getting stronger.

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Eric Peckham:

Lessons from Rupert Murdoch's approach to business, which grew News Corp into an empire that shapes policy and popular opinion — How to do business the News Corp way. — Given my focus on venture investing, media, and politics, it is perhaps no surprise that I find Rupert Murdoch …

Lucia Moses / Digiday:

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal is closing the loophole that let readers get articles for free through Google — The Wall Street Journal continues to tighten up its paywall as it strives to hit 3 million subscribers to the Journal and other Dow Jones products.

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Gabriel Snyder / Wired:

Inside NYT's digital transformation: luring subscribers via Beta Group's vertical apps, a Facebook chatbot, live video, VR, and more on top of strong journalism — Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6 …

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Duncan Campbell / The Register:

Proposed changes to draft UK Espionage Act, replacing Official Secrets Act, could mean jail time of up to 14 years for journalists who handled leaked gov't docs — Hasty and botched consultation revealed by El Reg — Exclusive Proposals for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Prince's Warner Music catalog returning Sunday to subscription-streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Napster, and iHeartRadio — Songs of late music legend Prince will again be available on multiple streaming-music services on Sunday, in releases timed for the 59th Grammy Awards.

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How Megyn Kelly softened her stridently conservative views to land a job at NBC, where she won't be allowed to stir up outrage as she did on Fox — fox news was founded in 1996, when the entertainment impresario and conservative political consultant Roger Ailes acted on a pair of insights …

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Shelley Hepworth / Columbia Journalism Review:

A look at The New York Times' push into Australia, a media market recently entered by foreign news orgs including BuzzFeed, The Guardian, and The Daily Mail — Kings Canyon, Australia (Ueli Fahrni / Wikipedia) — After posting a link to the news last month that he will be heading …

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Allister Heath / Telegraph:

Tim Cook says fake news is “killing people's minds”, calls for a PSA campaign, school education, and new tools from tech companies to battle it — Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which is “killing people's minds”.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Quora to clamp down on anonymity starting March 20, will review all anonymous content before it's published, restrict actions like upvoting, comments, more — Quora, a crowdsourced Q&A site that's generally smarter than Yahoo Answers, is making a big change to how anonymity works on its service.

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