News Corp Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts.

Wilson Chapman editorMark Gage Stroman, the entertainment advertising strategist who was an early hire at the fledging Fox Broadcasting Co., died Feb. 22 due to complications from COVID. He was 58.Stroman, who most recently served as chief marketing officer of Spin Media, had a long career in advertising and marketing.

Ahead of his new talk show launch, former Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan has been partying Down Under.The opinionated journalist, 56, left British soil to attend Sky New Australia’s 25th anniversary party at the Sydney Opera House. Piers took to Twitter on Thursday, sharing a snap of himself on Australia’s Today programme.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorRupert Murdoch’s 90th turn around the sun was feted on Thursday night in New York City as power brokers, longtime lieutenants and family members, with a conspicuous absence, gathered at Tavern on the Green for a long-delayed dinner celebration.Murdoch, one of the most influential media barons of the modern era who is executive chairman of News Corp.

Rupert Muroch’s News Corp said Monday it will acquire the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $349 million in cash and merge it with HarperCollins amid ongoing consolidation in the book publishing business.

Facebook will restrict publishers and users in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content as the Parliament there debates a law that would force tech and social media platforms – namely it and Google — to pay more for journalism on their sites.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRupert Murdoch’s News Corp said it reached a three-year partnership with Google under which it will provide news content from publications worldwide in return for “significant payments by Google.”Among the News Corp sites joining the Google News Showcase are the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and the New York Post; the U.K.’s the Times and Sunday Times and the Sun; and in Australia, publications including the Australian, news.com.au, Sky News, and

Rupert Murdoch, the 89-year-old media patriarch, received an initial dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a doctor’s office near his residence west of London.

Protests blocking deliveries of some of the UK’s major newspapers have been condemned as “completely unacceptable” by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Mae Hamilton When Hollywood superstar Shia LaBeouf rolled his longtime Sherman Oaks home onto the open market with a $2.25 million ask last month, a claws-out bidding war quickly ensued.

$14.1 million Bel Air spread are her next-door neighbors — billionaire Fox media heir Lachlan Murdoch and his model-actress wife Sarah Murdoch, property records reveal.In case you haven’t been following the news, Lachlan and younger brother James — in a story that could have been penned by Jeffrey Archer — have been entangled in a power struggle for papa Rupert’s billions.

Australia and the U.K. and owns the HarperCollins book publisher.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp says it’s trying to battle fake news and social-media clickbait with Knewz, its own curated headline-aggregation service.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said Monday that it has agreed to sell London-based programmatic video advertising platform Unruly to Israel-based, London-listed Tremor International.News Corp will not get any cash, but a 6.91 percent stake in Tremor under the proposed deal.