"Robert Thompson] may be the publisher [of the Wall Street Journal] but his responsibilities include few of the business tasks that title usually connotes. ‘I’m the head of content, that’s the simplest way to say it,’ he said."

The already internet-infamous parody.

… including Rupert Murdoch.

"HarperCollins, the book publishing giant owned by News Corporation, is poised to buy out of administration a small publishing house [the Friday Project] … [Harper Collins] plans to use the company’s expertise in new media publishing to bolster its exis

"The SlingShot Labs venture is designed to spawn Internet startups for News Corp. and also likely to help MySpace compete with Facebook"

"AT&T Inc., News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner Inc. — all considered candidates to do such a deal — aren’t preparing rival bids for Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter."

"a spokesman for the News Corporation said Sunday night that it was not preparing a bid, and other frequently named prospective suitors like Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast have not begun work on offers, people close to them said."

"As newspaper readership stagnates in the US and Europe, India’s newspapers are enjoying the kind of golden age the US saw at the end of the 19th century. These prospects are luring in international groups."

"Rupert Murdoch’s upstart Fox Business Network drew an estimated 6,000 average weekday viewers in its first few months on U.S. cable television, far behind entrenched rival CNBC, according to early ratings estimates obtained by Reuters."

"Sarah Ellison, the Wall Street Journal media reporter who recently signed a deal with Houghton Mifflin to write a book about Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of Dow Jones, said she will leave the paper for a year in order to work on the book."

"The news that Daddy Rupert is making way for son James is not good for the PM."

"[Robert] Thomson will have the publisher’s title, the job is likely to be defined differently than in the past. Mr. Thomson isn’t expected to have purview over the business side of the Journal … and instead will concentrate on editorial matters."