Monday 12 September 2011

Case Study Research: News Corporation

set up in; 1979
created by; Rupert Murdoch
brief history; news corp was created in 1979 by rupert murdoch as a holding company for news limited. news limited was also created by rupert murdoch from the assestist he inherited in 1959 due to the death of his farther. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion, it was based in austrailia but now is based all other the planet.
what areas of media it operates in; it mainly operated in news papers, brodcasts, radio, music, sport, tv, cable ect
names of the companys it owns; it owns 33 magazines (insideout), 2 book companies, 63 newspappers, 12 tv and film companies, 3 part shares in sports teams in australia, news corp was in the news in the summer due to phone hacking scandles that later due to news of the world closing down as a way to say that news corp was sorry, it still has many news pappers such as the sun ect.

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  1. Good research into the News Corporation institution. Well done for putting it into your own words as well rather than being tempted to copy and paste it. Next time try and write in more detail and include pictures to make your blog more visually interesting.

    INSTITUTION = 13/20 = B

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