Word: murdoch
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...imitated New York (circ. 375,000) and the nation's leading counterculture weekly newspaper, the Village Voice (circ. 162,000), but has already started its own invasion of the West Coast with the successful launching last April of New West (circ. 290,000). The company's takeover by Rupert Murdoch marks an important new addition to the largely sex-and-scandal press empire that Murdoch is building in Australia, Britain and the U.S. It also marks Murdoch's emergence as a major presence in U.S. journalism. Having committed roughly $45 million to his twin gambles within the past two months...
...story of Murdoch's latest foray begins with Clay Felker, the gifted but erratic editor who virtually invented New York (see box). He first met Murdoch about four years ago at the Virginia home of Washington Post Chairman Katharine Graham. Felker takes credit for introducing Murdoch to Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff, and after Murdoch bought Schiff's ailing Post, Felker offered advice on ways to improve the paper...
...Murdoch's most important new venture, the few changes wrought so far at the somnolent New York Post during his first week of ownership are mostly benign. He has picked a new editor: Australian-born TIME Senior Editor Edwin Bolwell, a former New York Timesman and Toronto Star managing editor. Murdoch has added a distinctive dark red banner across the top of the front page and banished ads from the first seven pages. Page six has been reserved for a mild stew of short, gossipy items?including last week's tongue-in-cheek rewrite of an Associated Press report that...
...does Murdoch plan any earthquakes at New York, except naming James Brady, a former Women's Wear Daily captain and uninspired New York gossip columnist, as editor. "I would keep its politics, although I might run fewer pieces and longer ones. I'm beginning to tire of all this pop psychology though. It doesn't have much to do with New York as an upper-middle-class service magazine." Murdoch plans to reverse Felker's transformation of the Village Voice over the past couple of years from a gritty neighborhood weekly to more of a faddish entertainment guide...
...Murdoch says he is finished shopping for new ventures and plans to settle in at New York and the Post. But it is hardly Murdoch's style to gather moss. He muses: "I've seized most of the opportunities, but I think about my failure to seize some...