Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rupert Murdoch
Standard Name: Murdoch, Rupert
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24 January 1986: Violent nightly clashes began to occur outside...
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24 January 1986
Violent nightly clashes began to occur outside the production plant of Rupert Murdoch
's News International
, publisher of the Times and the Sunday Times, at Wapping.
“Confrontation looms at Murdoch papers after talks collapse”. Times, 24 Jan. 1986, p. 1.
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1993: Rupert Murdoch, millionaire Australian proprietor...
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1993
Rupert Murdoch
, millionaire Australian proprietor of The Times, cut its cost by a third, instituting a price war with the Daily Telegraph; both papers lost millions in profit.
Stevens, Ronald. “A Different Sort of Tory”. London Review of Books, 12 Dec. 2002, pp. 16-17.
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2003: MySpace is launched in Santa Monica, California,...
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2003
MySpace
is launched in Santa Monica, California, competing with social networking sites like Friendster
. In 2005 MySpace was sold to Rupert Murdoch
's News Corporation
for 580 million dollars.
Boyd, Danah, and Nicole B. Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History,and Scholarship”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol.
13
, No. 1, International Communication Association, 2008, pp. 210-3.
9 July 2011: Journalists at the News of the World, a salacious...
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9 July 2011
Journalists at the News of the World, a salacious and nationalistic London Sunday paper with a hundred and sixty-eight years of publication behind it, produced their last issue, to appear the following day.
Beaumont, Peter, and Cherry Wilson. “Last day at the News of the World: sombre, surreal and defiant”. Guardian.co.uk, 9 July 2011.
