Sydney, June 12 (ANI): News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has said shareholders have approved a plan to split the media company into two independent firms.

London, May 25 (ANI): News Corporation Board has approved the split of its company into two publicly traded entities putting a step forward in separating its entertainment businesses from the publishing division.

London, May 9 (ANI): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is being pressed once again by dissident shareholders to step down as chairman of News Corporation.

Sydney, Apr. 2 (ANI): News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has labelled Australian Labor Party's language on foreign workers 'disgraceful and racist'.

Washington, Mar 18 (ANI): Employees at The Wall Street Journal's China news bureau faced investigation for allegedly bribing officials for gaining information, it has emerged.

London, Feb. 11 (ANI): News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has said days of Page 3 models on the Sun newspaper were 'last century.

London, Feb. 7 (ANI): News Corporation has reported a more-than-doubling in profits, but spent another 56 million dollars to cover costs related to the defunct News of the World.

London, Feb 7 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has waded into the row over cyber-attacks from China, by tweeting that hackers are still targeting the American newspaper.

London, Dec 22 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's publishing operations would have lost 2.08 billion dollars as a standalone company last year, News Corporation has said.

London, Dec 13 (ANI): James Harding, the editor of the British daily national newspaper, the Times, has announced his resignation.

London, Dec 4 (ANI): Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Corp has announced it will shut down The Daily, its iPad-only newspaper, after the firm failed to cover its costs.

London, Dec 3 (ANI): News Corporation, the media behemoth controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has accelerated its plans to split into two, and the firm's most senior executive in Britain is set to quit, says a report.

Washington, Dec. 2 (ANI): Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of Dow Jones, is expected to be named CEO of News Corp's new publishing company.

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has defended the publication of pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants in 2005, in the wake of suggestions that the media could face investigation in the US over payments made to obtain them.

Sydney, Nov 1 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's son James Murdoch is likely to face the shareholders ire at BskyB's annual meeting after a British telecoms watchdog called his 'competence' and 'attitude' into question.

London, Oct 30 (ANI): UK-based publishing firm Pearson has expressed confidence that the planned merger between its Penguin Group and German-based Random House unit will receive the approval of regulatory authorities.

London, Oct 29 (ANI): Media tycoon Rurpert Murdoch has reportedly planned to pour cold water on Penguin's proposed merger with Random House by making a one billion pound cash offer for the book publisher.

London, Oct 23 (ANI): Former media magnate Conrad Black has launched a withering attack on Rupert Murdoch, calling the News Corporation boss a 'psychopath'.

Washington, Oct. 21 (ANI): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has described reports that it is in discussions with Tribune Co or the Los Angeles Times to acquire them as being 'wholly inaccurate'.

Sydney, Oct 17 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has survived a second shareholder attempt to oust him as the chairman of News Corporation.

London, Oct 17 (ANI): News Corporation has said that a majority of shareholders have rejected a proposal to split Rupert Murdoch's dual role as chairman and chief executive.

London, Oct. 14 (ANI): The two largest public pension funds in America have voted to throw out Rupert Murdoch as the chairman of News Corporation, putting pressure on media chief executive ahead of a showdown with investors this week.

Washington, Oct. 6 (ANI): As a new, revamped version of MySpace was launched, CEO of Specific Media, the firm which bought MySpace from News Corps. in 2011, Tim Vanderhook has said that they are not seeking to compete with Facebook or Twitter.

London, Oct 4 (ANI): Shareholders in News Corporation have stepped up their campaign to oust media tycoon Rupert Murdoch as chairman of the company ahead of its annual general meeting later this month.

London, Sept 21 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's son James is facing renewed pressure to resign from the News Corporation and BSkyB boards, after the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority Ofcom savaged his "character and conduct".