Rupert Murdoch may be the most famous media baron alive today, and he may be the only one who has had an entire conference devoted to his study, in Sydney, Australia, in 1989. One observation that best summarized the mood at the conference, according...

Starting out as a newspaper publisher in his native Australia, Rupert Murdoch (born 1931) became a powerful media entrepreneur with wide holdings in England and the United States. His style of journalism evoked criticism from serious readers but served...

Last month Rupert Murdoch, chairman and C.E.O. of News Corp. and publisher of guilty-pleasure tabloid the New York Post, told London’s Guardian that newspapers were dead. Classified advertising, he said, was in a terminal “slide”: “I don’t know anybody under 30 who has ever looked...

The New York Times is currently undertaking a major news investigation, led by managing editor Jill Abramson, into News Corp.’s business dealings throughout the world, according to a source with knowledge of the project. Currently, Ms. Abramson is working outside of the newsroom, recovering...

Today, Rupert Murdoch is seated atop the greatest media throne in the world, as he closed a deal to buy Dow Jones & Company after three months of speculation and family drama. And Wall Street Journal reporters had reason to believe, by yesterday afternoon, that...

The companies said early Wednesday morning that they signed a definitive agreement after the deal won sufficient support to pass from a deeply divided Bancroft family, which has controlled the storied newspaper publisher for generations.Murdoch is getting one of the great trophies of U.S. journalism...