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News Corporation

The News Corporation is an Australian media conglomorate that operates world-wide. Its major shareholder and managing director is Rupert Murdoch. It is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

The holdings of News Corp include:

• Australian newspapers
  • the Herald-Sun
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • The Australian[?]
• UK newspapers
  • the tabloid The Sun
  • the broadsheet The Times
• US newspapers and magazines
  • the New York Post
  • TV Guide
• TV stations
  • Sky Television the near monopoly pay-television operator in the United Kingdom, operating in much of Europe
  • Fox Network a US-wide broadcast television network
  • Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news channel
  • Star TV[?], an Asian satellite TV service
• the HarperCollins[?] book publishing company
• 20th Century Fox film production company
• Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team

External Links

• News Corporation website (http://www.newscorp.com/)
• Complete list of News Corp's holdings (http://www.cjr.org/owners/newscorp.asp) - Columbia Journalism Review

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