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...Investors had pressed Mr Murdoch for several years to spend more on buy-backs, fearing that News Corp’s plentiful cash would otherwise be spent on unexpected deals such as MySpace and Dow Jones, some of...
...appointed Joel Klein, head of his new education business, to the office of the chairman a year ago, but has since lost two other close counsellors, with the resignations of Les Hinton as chief executive of Dow Jones...
...For the year to November inclusive, the Dow Jones-UBS commodity index lost almost 10 per cent on a total return basis....
...“Policy failures in the US and Europe have darkened the six-month outlook,” Colin Fenton wrote to clients. “We expect outright total return losses near-term and see greater value in bonds.”...
...Other directors suffered heavy protests, with under a quarter of independent investors backing Lachlan Murdoch, James’s brother; Natalie Bancroft, the Dow Jones family representative; and the board’s oldest...
...It was “with the heaviest of hearts” that he accepted Les Hinton’s resignation as Dow Jones chief executive....
...Rupert Murdoch has lost two of his most trusted executives to the phone-hacking scandal engulfing News Corp, with the resignations of Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street...
...Additional reporting by Ben Fenton and Salamander Davoudi in London...
...Reporting by Ben Fenton, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Tim Bradshaw, Elizabeth Rigby, Salamander Davoudi and Kiran Stacey...
...Giving evidence to the Commons committee on culture, media and sport in 2007, Les Hinton, then chief executive of News International and now chief executive of Dow Jones, was asked if he had carried out...
...safeguards of its editorial independence are “weak and of the sort that News Corporation has previously being adept at undermining”, a reference to similar arrangements allowing Rupert Murdoch to take over Dow Jones...
...Luke Bradley-Jones, managing director of BBC.com, its commercial web operation, said it would be aimed at early adoptors of technology who had an interest in high-quality BBC programmes....
...Its last big deal, the $5.7bn acquisition of Dow Jones in 2007, was followed by a $2.8bn writedown....
...That suggests a full bid could cost News Corp more than £7bn, or almost twice as much as its $5.8bn acquisition of Dow Jones in 2007....
...Also at the conference, Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones, said that the relationship between news aggregators such as Google and producers of content such as his parent News Corp brought to mind...
...executive of News International would free James Murdoch, who has been acting as de facto chief executive of the operation News International since the departure of Les Hinton to be chief executive of Dow Jones...
...Mr Murdoch’s journalistic record was the focus of fierce debate in the US during his 2007 pursuit of Dow Jones, which he won after assuring the media company’s controlling family that he would preserve the...
...Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal, is on a road show in London this week to discuss Dow Jones’ future. News Corp and Dow Jones both declined to comment....
...the New York Times to end online subscriptions, and as Rupert Murdoch is considering abandoning subscriptions to increase traffic to the Wall Street Journal’s website after News Corp’s purchase of Dow Jones...
...Mr Jones has replaced Mr McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (Jonathan Cape) as the Man Booker favourite. The book had attracted some controversy on account of its length....
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