News Corp

Kerala police on Sunday carried out a "search" at the office of Malayalam news channel Asianet News here in connection with a case. A senior police officer, who was leading the team that arrived at the Kozhikode office of the news channel, later told reporters here that the "search" was carried out as part of the investigation in the case. "No documents have been taken," the officer said. According to news reports, the case registered by police is based on a complaint lodged by a politician alleging that an interview done by the channel of a schoolgirl who was allegedly forced to work as a drug courier was fake news. The police search comes just a couple of days after a group of SFI activists allegedly trespassed into the Kochi office of the news channel and intimidated the staff. Following the police search, Asianet News tweeted: "Days after SFI hooliganism, Kerala Police conducts 'search' at Asianet News Kozhikode office. Regardless, Asianet News continues to report, true to its

The move was widely seen as a way for Lachlan Murdoch to cement his control over the family media empire.

Rupert Murdoch is exploring options to recombine his Fox Corp. and News Corp. businesses, putting back together a media empire that he split in 2013

News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Friday that it had been hacked and had data stolen from journalists and other employees

Facebook's shutting out all media content in the country for a week last month angered world leaders, as the blackout included emergency services and government health pages

Google had also objected for months and threatened, like Facebook, to withdraw core services from the country, before signing deals with most media outlets

News Corp said on Monday it had reached a three-year agreement to provide Facebook Inc users access to news in Australia.

The companies will develop a subscription platform, share advertising revenue through Google's ad technology services, build out audio journalism and develop video journalism by YouTube

As part of the agreement, the companies will develop a subscription platform and will share advertising revenue through Google's ad technology services

Covid has proven the vulnerability of ad revenues. The problem with subscription is that it requires readers to make a commitment, says Young

The realty platform is backed by News Corp

Elara will continue to operate as a stand-alone entity within the REA Group structure

Since the sale of the bulk of Murdoch's 21st Century Fox assets to Disney (of which James was chief executive), there is no future role for him in the corporation

While tendering the resignation, Murdoch also cited differences over certain strategic decisions of the company

"In the coming months, we will need to streamline the business and take some tough decisions, saying goodbye to some valued and talented colleagues," Brooks said in the letter seen by Reuters

As a result of the changes, the bulk of News Corp's regional and community titles would move to purely digital publishing from June 29

News Corp also reported an 8% drop in revenue to $2.27 billion, hurt by a weaker Australian dollar and lower subscription at Foxtel.

Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change

With this, NewsCorp has expanded its presence in the country from the current digital text presence through VCCircle and other websites

Nita Kapoor will begin her stint on April 4 and will be head of new ventures and CEO of VCCircle Network