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The News Corp. Phone-Hacking Scandal: A Cheat Sheet

The long-running  controversy over charges of phone-hacking at the News of the World took another turn on Tuesday, when prosecutors charged eight top News Corp. figures with criminal involvement in the scandal. Here’s what you need to know:

Who’s Been Charged?

Rebekah Brooks , former editor of News of the World and The Sun, who later went on to lead News Corp.’s U.K. publishing arm; Andrew Coulson, another former News of the World editor; and five of the paper’s journalists. The group is accused of conspiring to hack the voicemails of more than 600 people over six years, beginning in October 2000 through August 2006.

According to the police, the victims include celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jude Law, Sienna Miller and Sadie Frost, several politicians and 13-year-old murder victim Milly Dowler . It was a July 2011 story alleging that News of the World reporters hacked into Dowler’s voicemail that kindled mass outrage and led to the current investigation.

Brooks faces additional charges of conspiracy to intercept communications in the cases of Dowler and Andrew Gilchrist, a former trade union boss, and Coulson faces four additional charges related to hacking in the Dowler case and three others including two parliamentarians. The five other journalists have also been charged in several specific cases.

Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator hired by the paper, is also charged in relation to four of the hacking cases, including those of Dowler and Gilchrist. You can read the full list of charges from the Crown Prosecution Service here .

What They Say

All eight have denied the charges . Brooks released a statement saying that she was “distressed and angry” about the charges. “I am not guilty of these charges,” she said. “I did not authorize, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship.” She added: “The charge concerning Milly Dowler is particularly upsetting not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime. I will vigorously defend these allegations.”

Coulson said in a statement that he was “extremely disappointed” by the charges.  “At the News of the World we worked on behalf of the victims of crime, particularly violent crime, and the idea that I would sit in my office dreaming up schemes to undermine investigations is simply untrue,” he said.

How Has the Scandal Affected the News Corp. Empire?

Murdoch closed the News of the World last year following the Dowler investigation, but that didn’t stanch the flow of criticism.  As new hacking revelations were uncovered, the company moved to reassure investors that the News Corp. empire won’t be scuttled by scandal. Brooks, a Murdoch favorite, resigned last year from the company amid investigations into her alleged role in phone hacking. In June, News Corp. separated its publishing arm from its more profitable entertainment business. Analysts suggested the move was largely about boosting shareholder value — as our handy graphic on the split shows, it’s clear the publishing arm was becoming less profitable.

Murdoch himself has taken considerable personal fire. After he  testified  that he had known nothing about the phone-hacking scandal, he was blasted for being out of touch, and a May British parliamentary report  found that the media mogul “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” Earlier this week, Murdoch resigned from the boards of his British newspapers in a move that analysts said was designed to distance the media mogul from the hacking scandal and restore shareholders’ confidence in the company. However, a company spokeswoman told the  New York Times that the move was “nothing more than a corporate housecleaning exercise” and staff were reassured that Murdoch would remain involved with the papers.

What Are the Broader Political Implications of the Charges?

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been publicly embarrassed by the scandal, which has raised questions about his close relationships with top News Corp. officials. The prime minister has had a longtime friendship with Brooks and her husband, and he came under fire for his decision to hire Coulson as a communications officer in 2010, despite the hacking allegations which had already surfaced. Now, both Brooks’ and Coulson’s trials are likely stretch on for a year or more and could reveal more uncomfortable links to Cameron — who faces a general election in 2015.

Is The Scandal Over?

Not likely. Alison Levitt, the principal legal adviser to the Public Prosecutions director, said in a statement announcing the charges that there are two additional suspects under investigation. Three more likely won’t be prosecuted, she said, but “because others are now about to be charged, it would not be appropriate for me to give reasons for these decisions at this stage.”

Levitt said that officials would release the full list of hacking victims once they had all been notified.

But that isn’t the only ongoing investigation into allegations of impropriety at Murdoch papers. Yesterday, the  Guardian  reported  that as part of a second investigation into computer hacking and privacy breaches, Scotland Yard is investigating evidence that staff members at News International papers had information taken from stolen mobile phones.

In a third ongoing investigation , authorities are looking into possibly illegal payments made by News Corp. journalists to police officers and other public officials.

And today marked the last day of testimony at the Leveson inquiry , established by Prime Minister Cameron in July 2011 to make recommendations about press standards and ethics in Britain. Leveson heard testimony from a wide range of people connected to the scandal, including Guardian  reporter Nick Davies , who broke the phone-hacking story; the Dowler family; officers from Scotland Yard; actor Hugh Grant; and Rupert and James Murdoch .

Lord Justice Leveson, who oversaw the inquiry, says he will issue his report “as soon as I reasonably can.”

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I’ve been teaching students in Hong Kong about the relationship between politics and the media, and wanted to illustrate the sometimes problematic relationship between media and power. So I showed them Robert Peston’s BBC Panorama documentary about the “industrial-scale” criminality of Rupert Murdoch’s UK red-tops in the era of Andy Coulson and Rebekkah Brooks (* on Friday August 28 Rebekkah was named as CEO for News Corp in the UK).

Like most people with even a passing interest in the part played by News Corporation in British politics, I remember exactly what I was doing when the scandal broke in 2011 and the sense of a seemingly indestructible media behemoth crumbling into chaos and ruin before our eyes. I had been researching and teaching about the News empire for more than two decades by then, frequently using it as a case study of how at least some privately owned media organisations abuse their power in pursuit of competitive success and political influence.

While I always took care to acknowledge Murdoch’s positive contribution to sustaining the idea that journalism is important and must be invested in if it is to survive the digital age, the deeply unethical behaviour of The Sun in relation to such events as the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the sinking of the Belgrano during the Falklands War were and remain classic examples of the excesses of British tabloid journalism.

Murdoch’s use of his media to influence and shape the democratic political process in all the markets where he operates was illustrated by reference to Fox News, The Sun and other News Corp outlets which operate as what the late newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell called a “megaphone” for the Murdochian world view and political agenda.

So the phone hacking scandal of 2011 was a genuinely shocking thing to behold.

Peston’s documentary was a reminder of that moment, which at the time was generally regarded as pivotal in British political history. Where senior politicians of both Labour and Conservative parties had for decades “queued up to kiss the shoes” of Rupert Murdoch and his tabloid editors (as investigative journalist Nick Davies put it to Peston), suddenly no–one wanted to be his friend anymore.

The hitherto unspoken truth (unspoken among politicians who were its beneficiaries, that is) that the relationship between the Murdoch media and the political elite in Britain had become undemocratic and incestuous became the new common sense overnight.

Among the many adverse impacts of the scandal on News Corporation was the collapse of its bid to buy the remaining 61% of the shares for BSkyB that it didn’t own – a deal that was by now attracting heat for both the Murdochs and a government that had seemed eager to wave the multi-billion deal through despite massive public opposition.

There was talk of prosecutions in the US, where corporate criminality such as the bribery of public officials is taken very seriously. That never came to pass, but few doubted that the reputation of Rupert Murdoch and the corporate culture which he had presided over for more than 40 years had been seriously – perhaps terminally – wounded.

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That view has turned out to be well wide of the mark. Once again News Corporation is on the offensive against its old enemy , the BBC, lobbying a second-term Cameron government – armed now with a majority in the House of Commons and thus empowered to act with greater freedom than was possible in the five years of coalition – to shrink the corporation.

Once again there are reports of Murdoch’s privileged access to the corridors of power, as in The Independent in July :

George Osborne is under pressure to reveal if he held a private meeting with Rupert Murdoch days before the Treasury imposed a £650m budget cut on the BBC. Whitehall speculation about the alleged meeting – which would raise fresh questions about the closeness of the relationship between the Conservatives and the Murdoch empire – has prompted Labour to write to Mr Osborne demanding he release full details of his contact with the News Corp boss.

It looks like business as usual, then, for a global media baron used to commanding the attention of political leaders and wielding his power to influence policymaking on the future of the BBC.

Whose side are you on?

In Australia, where I live and work – and where the phone-hacking scandal had little impact on News Corporation’s activities – a similar offensive is underway against the ABC .

In Australia, as in the UK, News Corporation is allied to a right-of-centre government which regards the public sector in general, and public service media in particular, as hostile to its goals and ripe for “reform”.

The Australian, News Corp’s flagship title down under (like The Times and Sunday Times in the UK), maintains a steady flow of anti-public service media reportage and commentary, criticising with boring predictability executive salaries, or the alleged bias of its news department, or indeed anything that can be made to appear excessive and un-Australian.

After the Zaky Mallah affair, Prime Minister Tony Abbott asked of the ABC: “whose side are you on?” In a similar way, News Corporation likes to present the ABC as a cultural fifth column, its commentators regularly demanding that it be reduced to a “market failure” broadcaster – and in the process, coincidentally enough, allowing News the opportunity to become even more dominant in the Australian media landscape than it already is .

On this issue, as on many others, Murdoch’s media act as cheerleaders for the Abbott government.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the ferocity of the campaigns against public service media in Australia and the UK could easily be read as more than coincidence. In both countries News Corp press seek to undermine the funding models of public service media, and their right to produce popular entertainment programming such as The Voice. This has been a decades long campaign for News Corp in the UK, and after the Jimmy Savile scandal and other dents to its reputation, the BBC is more vulnerable than it has ever been.

The ABC, one might argue, is in a stronger defensive position than the BBC. While the latter now faces five years of majority Conservative government, Abbott must go to the polls in September 2016 at the latest – and repeated opinion polls show a deep affection among Australians for the ABC.

Tampering with Auntie would be politically risky. The real danger will come if the Coalition is re-elected with a comfortable majority, giving Abbott the freedom of manoeuvre now enjoyed by Cameron in the UK.

In the meantime, the BBC and ABC must hold their nerve, and trust in the capacity of the publics they serve to continue recognising the importance of the role they play and the excellent value for money which they deliver. Both the BBC and ABC cost the individual license fee or taxpayer much less than a subscription to Foxtel or BSkyB. Even the purchase of one daily newspaper in either country for a year exceeds the cost per person of funding public service media and the wealth of content they deliver on TV, radio and online.

Supporters of public service media are familiar with these arguments, but in both Australia and the UK they must be made and made again, forcefully and with confidence.

To lose the BBC and the ABC, or to see them reduced to a pale shadow of public service media – think PBS and NPR in the United States – would be a cultural disaster from which there would be no recovery that was not directed by News Corporation and other private media interests.

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The purpose of this case study analysis is to understand the confluence of factors that led to business misconduct at News Corporation’s News of the World newspaper. Special attention is given to three contributing factors: (1) organizational culture, (2) management decision-making and high-risk strategy, and (3) failures in corporate governance. A basic argument is that such glaring failures were directly aided by a diffusion of authority where neither the company’s executive leadership nor its corporate board of directors were willing to acknowledge or take responsibility for the actions of the newspaper’s management and professional writing staff. There was an information gap that allowed poor strategic decision-making to occur. The closure of News of the World brought an end to a 168 year old highly successful English-language newspaper.

I knew nothing about phone hacking… Rupert Murdoch CEO, News Corporation Ltd. I accept that I did not do enough. It doesn’t mean I was a party to it. Andy Coulson, Former Editor News of the World I don’t think anybody, me included, knew it was illegal. Rebekah Brooks, Former Editor News of the World

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Some weeks ago, I paid a visit to an eggshell-blue house in Newtown, a neighborhood on the west side of Sydney, to Wendy Bacon and her husband, Chris Nash.

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As we sat on the porch of their book-lined home, they pointed with pride to the Australasian trees and blooms defining their interior courtyard.

And then Bacon delved into her own harvest: the results of a case study about how the country's newspapers handled a pressing and contentious issue.

Bacon, a professor of journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney, commissioned researchers and graduate students to examine six months' worth of every article, feature piece, editorial and columns in 10 leading Australian papers on a proposal by the governing Labor Party to tax carbon emissions.

"What our study showed is that the majority of Australians are not getting a balanced or diverse view on a policy which was designed — at least in a small way — to tackle this problem," Bacon said.

Seven of the 10 papers studied were part of News Corp.'s Australian newspaper arm, News Limited. The overwhelming majority of newspapers sold in the country are owned by Rupert Murdoch's company. With such dominance of the press, the Murdoch papers draw careful scrutiny of how they cover sensitive issues.

Influence On Public Opinion

During my time in Australia, journalists said the Murdoch papers, to varying degrees, are receptive to those who question the science underlying projections of climate change.

That holds true from the populist tabloids to the respected, if combative, national newspaper The Australian — even if the Oz, as it's commonly called, has more nuanced and extensive coverage. (News Limited's paper in the Tasmanian state capital of Hobart, where residents are more liberal, is seen to take a more pro-environmental tack.)

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Protesters rally in Sydney last July against Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's planned carbon tax.

Bacon said she wanted to see if those papers' coverage fit or disproved that anecdotal impression. The study found News Limited exceeded it. Researchers were told to characterize stories as neutral if there was any doubt about their thrust, and a sizable number were characterized that way. Still, negative articles about the proposed carbon emissions tax in Murdoch's newspapers outweighed positive ones 82 percent to 18 percent.

The remaining papers were more balanced, with the two papers from rival Fairfax Media offering slightly favorable coverage overall. But much of the coverage was based on slight sourcing and conveyed the sense that there was a scientific debate over climate change — not just a political one over what, if anything, to do about it.

Bacon said that all adds up to a campaign by the Murdoch press against the governing Labor Party's policy rather than tough-minded scrutiny of it. Australians, she said, simply weren't getting enough insight about the science or the politics to be able to make informed decisions.

"If that's happening on that one issue, well, it's certainly happening on other issues," Bacon said. "Given that Murdoch is so dominant, we have to at least recognize the very big influence, a big potential influence, on public opinion wielded by one company."

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The surprising thing is Murdoch himself staked out a different stance for his own company quite publicly five years ago while citing below average rainfall in his hometown of Melbourne and drought in his native Australia. Speaking in New York City in spring 2007, Murdoch pledged to make his company carbon neutral over time.

'A Sceptical Climate'

"Now, I realize we can't take just one year in one city or even one continent as proof that something unusual is happening. And I am no scientist. But there are signs around the world, and I do know how to assess a risk," he said. "Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction."

Murdoch and his executives and journalists at News Limited declined to be interviewed for this story. Greg Baxter, News Limited's then-director of corporate affairs, denounced Bacon at the release of her study by asserting she lacked credibility and that the company regretted that she was able to teach students.

Baxter told the news site the Conversation that The Australian "believes that humans are warming the planet — but obviously there is doubt among those who claim otherwise" — and that the paper favored a market-based solution.

"The fact that Wendy Bacon produces a piece of research that is negative about this company is no surprise to anybody," he said. "She's been doing it for 25 years."

Baxter has since left that job and could not be reached for comment.

Bacon is a recipient of the Walkley Award — the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize — for her work exposing police corruption. She told me she was dumbstruck by the personal nature of the reply, saying she had done little research about the Murdoch press until recently.

Negative Coverage And Skepticism

The Australian has aggressively opposed the Green Party's agenda of addressing climate change through greater regulation and taxation of pollution. Two years ago, the paper vowed in an editorial that it would seek to destroy the party at the ballot box.

At an academic conference in fall 2010, a former environmental reporter at The Australian, Asa Wahlquist, said she fought with editors routinely over the extent and nature of her coverage

"I couldn't do it anymore," she told attendees, including environmental activists. "I hung in there for a long time because I thought it was important that at least I was in there trying."

The scholar and journalist Robert Manne wrote a lengthy critique of The Australian in which he, too, devoted a section to reviewing its climate change coverage. His conclusions echoed those of Bacon.

"On balance, the opinion pieces and the news coverage in the paper was on the side of those who were against the climate scientists," Manne said. "And that might be playing into the hands of the group I call the 'denialists' because all they have to do is create doubt in the public mind to make it much more difficult for politicians to take action."

The top editors and executives at The Australian took umbrage at that assessment, as well.

Bacon found the most negative coverage in the country's top-selling Murdoch tabloids — the Melbourne Herald Sun and the Sydney Daily Telegraph . The Herald Sun 's Andrew Bolt is said to be the top-read columnist in Australia. He presents as an outright skeptic of climate change, at one point calling competing newspapers that treat it as settled science "propagandists."

The topic is a frequent subject of his political opinion show on the broadcast Network Ten.

That network is not owned by News Corp., but its chairman is Lachlan Murdoch, who remains a corporate director and major investor at his father's company.

Scratching Their Heads

The journalists I spoke to in Australia tell me they have a tough time reconciling Murdoch's corporate announcement in 2007 with the coverage in his papers.

"Everybody was rather taken aback and it seemed to change the editorial tone of climate change coverage for a very short period of time — but not very long. I think it lasted a year, perhaps less," said Monica Attard, a former foreign correspondent, media critic and host for the ABC, Australia's public broadcasting network.

"And then we were all left scratching our heads as to what Rupert's missive that News Limited was to become a green company was actually all about," said Attard, now managing editor of the online Global Mail , based in Sydney. "Nobody quite understood. Perhaps they turned the lights off at night. We weren't really sure."

As it happens, News Corp. executive James Murdoch — Rupert's younger son — held his own grand announcement in London last year. News Corp. had become a carbon-neutral company.

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Buy Professional PPT templates to impress your boss Nobody get fired for buying our Business Reports Templates. They are just awesome. More Services Feel free to drop us an email fernfortuniversity[@]gmail.com (000) 000-0000 SDME – Case Study – News Corp | Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Introduction As News Corp heads into 2019,   it is looking to its Australian markets and digital real estate to help drive growth. While the digital real estate division accounts for about 45% of News Corp’s total value, according to Forbes’ estimates, it only accounts for about 14% of total revenue.   In early 2018, News Corp saw the writing on the wall. In its second-quarter earnings report, there were signs of optimism. Revenue and   earnings per share   beat Wall Street expectations. Digital revenues at   The Wall Street Journal   continued to rise. But News Corp’s financial statements also showed big changes were ahead. Print ad revenue fell 6% year-over-year. While digital resources continued to grow, the company’s news and information brands faced claims from some, including U.S. President Donald Trump, of spreading fake news. “The potential returns for our journalism would be far higher in a less chaotic, less   debased   digital environment,” said CEO Robert Thomson on the February 2018 earnings call.   What do these trends reveal about News Corp’s future? Read more about News Corp.’s history below. In October, Australian newspaperman Sir Keith Murdoch dies. His son, Keith Rupert Murdoch inherits the  Herald  and  Weekly Times Ltd . After acquiring a series of local newspapers across the country, Murdoch makes a big move in May by buying the  Sydney Daily Mirror  and  Sunday Mirror . T he   Australian  launches. It’s the first newspaper created by Murdoch and the country’s first national daily. Murdoch wins a bidding war against Robert Maxwell for the News of the World in the U.K. He buys the  Sun  and relaunches it as a tabloid. Murdoch makes his first U.S. foray in Texas, buying the  San Antonio Express  and the  San Antonio News . Murdoch enters an even bigger U.S. market, buying the  New York Post  for $30 million. News Corp reorganizes itself as a holding company with Australian, U.K. and U.S. assets. News Corp buys the  UK Times   and  Sunday Times . News Corp acquires the  Chicago Sun-Times  and enters the satellite TV business. Murdoch buys the UK’s Satellite Television and renames it Sky. He also acquires a 6.7% stake in Warner Communications. News Corp buys half of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. Murdoch is sworn in as a U.S. citizen, paving the way for him to purchase U.S. TV assets. NewsCorp sells the  Chicago Sun-Times  and buys Metromedia for $1.9 billion. The entity’s six television stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and Washington become the backbone of the Fox Television network. The  New York Post  is sold. Sky Television launches in the UK, and HarperCollins is formed by a merger of book publishers. News Corp debts reach $7 billion, prompting bankruptcy worries and putting Murdoch’s control of the company in jeopardy. News Corp buys back the  New York Post  and expands into Asia with a stake in Star TV. Fox Television expands after Murdoch buys a 20% stake in New World’s 12 major market stations. These networks switch their affiliations to Fox. The initial public offering of Sky in the UK nets News Corp $1.3 billion. Fox News launches. News Corp and Fox acquire the remaining 80% of New World. Fox Entertainment Group’s IPO raises $2.8 billion. Sky Global Networks emerges to create a global network, with a reach from the UK to Latin America. Fox Television Stations acquires 10 more networks for $5.35 billion, giving the group the largest footprint in the U.S. market. NewsCorp enters the satellite TV market, acquiring one-third of DirecTV owner Hughes Electronics for $6.6 billion in cash and stock. Murdoch shocks many in the industry when he purchases MySpace, the largest social media site in the world, surpassing even Google in terms of visitors. Murdoch buys the  Wall Street Journal ’s parent, Dow Jones, for $5 billion. The Fox Business news channel launches. Wall Street analysts and investors begin to voice concern that the newspaper industry woes were dragging down News Corp’s stock price. In June, News Corp formally splits into two entities, with 21st Century Fox housing the television, film, and supporting digital enterprises. This separation, Murdoch predicts, will “unlock the true value” of both companies and allow investors “to benefit from the strategic opportunities” of each company. The stock of the “new” News Corp debuts at around $15 a share, rose as high as $18 before settling in around the $12 to $14 range. The two-year-old “publishing company” is composed of five divisions: 1)  News and Information Services:   newspapers in the U.S., Europe and Asia—including such prestigious brands as the  Wall Street Journal  and the  Times of London , popular tabloids such as the  New York Post  and the  Sun , and 120 newspapers in Australia—as well as a North American direct-mail and coupon-marketing service 2)  Book Publishing:  HarperCollins — the venerable New York Harper & Row, purchased by News Corp in 1987 and merged with British publisher William Collins & Son in 1990 3)  Digital Real Estate Services:  A partial interest in REA—which operates websites in Australia, China and Europe, advertising commercial and residential listings—and Move, which operates similar websites in the United States 4)   Cable Network Programming:  FOX SPORTS, the leading sports programming producer in Australia 5)  Digital Education:   Amplify, a tablet-based instructional program for K-12 that incorporated the Common Core Standards into a multi-media presentation. In October, News Corp takes an impairment charge of $370 million against its digital education division and the company sells Amplify, which it purchased for $390 million in 2011, for an undisclosed sum. By year’s end, the company reports revenues of $8.63 billion, a 1% increase compared to the prior year. Growth comes from the Book Publishing and Digital Real Estate Services segments, as a result of acquiring of Harlequin Enterprises Limited (“Harlequin”) and Move, Inc. (“Move”). NewsCorp reports fiscal 2016 4Q total revenues of $2.2 billion, a 5% climb from the previous year. Growth in the Digital Real Estate Services and Book Publishing segments continue to be partially offset by lower advertising revenues in the News and Information Services segment. While digital ad revenue is sluggish, audiences across several news properties rise. The  WSJ   reached 948,000 digital-only subscribers.  News UK ,  The Times  and  The Sunday Times  hit 182,500 digital-only subscribers. Digital subscriptions account for nearly half of the subscriber base, while print sales rise tangibly.  The Sun’ s website relaunches, with over 42 million global unique users and a lifted paywall. Digital Real Estate Services continue to power News Corp’s fiscal-year growth. It accounts for nearly 40% of the company’s profits. HarperCollins posts higher EBITDA and margins through books with broad appeal including  The Magnolia Stor y and  Hillbilly Elegy . Digital audio is cited as a source of long-term growth. In November, Murdoch reportedly offers to buy CNN but was turned down. News Corp reports 3% growth in revenue for Q4 in 2017. While its digital real-estate unit continues to prosper, the news and information services division remains plagued by dwindling ad revenues. In May, NewsCorp reports a 6% gain in revenue, driven by digital real estate and book publishing. Key titles include  The Woman in the Window  by A.J. Finn and  The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi  Kathie Lee Gifford. News & information services revenue jumps 2% compared to the previous year. In August, News Corp closes out FY18 with a $1.4 billion net loss but sees a 12% rise among its Australian digital subscriptions. News Corp also launches Kayo Sports, dubbed the “Netflix of Sports,” which offers a massive lineup of sports streaming service to Australian consumers, ranging from rugby to college basketball to European soccer. In January. News Corp announces Sean Giancola will become publisher and CEO of the  New York Post  and Michelle Gotthelf will become Digital editor-in-chief of the  Post . Giancola previously served as the chief revenue officer at the  Post   and vice president of national sales at AOL Advertising prior to the  Post . Gotthelf was a reporter at ABPnews.com,  North Jersey Herald and News , and Newsday before holding reporting and managing editor positions at the  Post . In February, News Corp releases Q2 results, which show promising growth for various divisions in the media enterprise. News Corp continues to experience growth from its digital real estate division, which contributes to 44% of total company EBITDA. Revenues in this division increase 8% and EBITDA increases by 11%. The HarperCollins division achieves record revenue and segment EBITDA in Q2. As of late, digital real estate is driving News Corp’s bottom line. Interested in learning more about how a single division can affect the future of a large media company? Read more about News Corp’s book publishing division in   The Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur,   pgs. 43-45.   News Corp Timeline Sources:  Australian Press timeline: https://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/1951-2005.html Financial Times timeline: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/07/16/1900262/how-to-build-an-empire-the-full-murdoch-timeline/ Annual/Quarterly Reports: 2015 —  https://newscorp.com/2015/08/12/news-corp-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-results-for-fiscal-2015/ 2016 —  https://newscorp.com/2016/08/08/news-corp-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-results-for-fiscal-2016/ 2017 —  https://newscorp.com/2017/08/10/news-corp-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-for-fiscal-2017/ 2018 —  https://newscorp.com/2018/08/09/news-corp-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-results-for-fiscal-2018/ CMO Today: Murdoch’s CNN Calls https://www.wsj.com/articles/cmo-today-hannity-ad-boycott-murdochs-cnn-calls-ogilvys-burning-platform-moment-1510580493 News Corp Revenue Boosted by Digital Real Estate Unit https://www.wsj.com/articles/news-corp-reports-loss-but-a-rise-in-revenue-1518129789 News Corp earnings boosted by real estate, books https://www.marketwatch.com/story/news-corp-earnings-boosted-by-real-estate-books-2018-05-10 News Corp finishes fiscal year with a net loss but paid subscriptions rise https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/aug/10/news-corp-worldwide-reports-us14bn-net-loss-but-paid-subscriptions-rise News Corp continues to benefit from digital real estate growth https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/02/06/news-corp-to-continue-to-benefit-from-digital-real-estate-growth-in-q2/#495aeba50ae7 News Corp launches Kayo Sports in Australia https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/kayo-sports-streaming-service-dubbed-netflix-of-sports-launches-in-australia/news-story/3e51c09591d308efe54e912842d5e9ce Search Search Search … Search Search … Subjects Covered Acquisitions Conglomerates Expansion Government policy Media relations Vertical integration by Bharat N. 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The review was conducted through a portfolio review in which Moody's reassessed the appropriateness of the ratings in the context of the relevant principal methodology(ies), recent developments, and a comparison of the financial and operating profile to similarly rated peers. The review did not involve a rating committee. Since 1 January 2019, Moody's practice has been to issue a press release following each periodic review to announce its completion. This publication does not announce a credit rating action and is not an indication of whether or not a credit rating action is likely in the near future. Credit ratings and outlook/review status cannot be changed in a portfolio review and hence are not impacted by this announcement. For any credit ratings referenced in this publication, please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page on www.moodys.com for the most updated credit rating action information and rating history. Key rating considerations are summarized below. The credit profile of the Oblast of Omsk (Ba3) incorporates low likelihood of extraordinary support from the federal government. In addition, it reflects the region's historically moderate or weak operating performance, some concentration of tax revenues and substantial refinancing risks given the uneven repayment schedule with bulky repayments. The region suffers from elevated population migration given the subdued regional economic wealth compared to national average. Its economy demonstrates weak growth which translates into modest dynamics of tax revenues. Moderate operating performance and a consistent need for market access for debt refinancing mean the region remains relatively vulnerable to an ongoing supply of credit and possible adverse economic scenarios. More positively, the credit profile incorporates some resilience of revenues to economic cycles due to relative stability of the local economy and authorities' clear policy to reduce leverage which declined to moderate levels during the last three years. This document summarizes Moody's view as of the publication date and will not be updated until the next periodic review announcement, which will incorporate material changes in credit circumstances (if any) during the intervening period. The principal methodology used for this review was Regional and Local Governments published in January 2018. Please see the Rating Methodologies page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology. This announcement applies only to EU rated and EU endorsed ratings. Non EU rated and non EU endorsed ratings may be referenced above to the extent necessary, if they are part of the same analytical unit. This publication does not announce a credit rating action. 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