Word: murdoch
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Australian Press Lord K. (for Keith) Rupert Murdoch did not endear himself to the Manhattan publishing establishment when, two years ago, he snapped up the New York Post, New York magazine and the Village Voice, and began remaking the Post according to his own tabloid tastes. Last week the publishers had even less reason to love Murdoch. In a move variously regarded as daring, cynical and even brilliant, the Australian broke ranks with his fellow publishers and made a separate peace with nine striking unions. His Post thus became the first major New York newspaper to hit the streets since...
...What Murdoch did was to work out a "me too" deal, first with pressmen, whose walkout shut down the papers Aug. 9, then with several other unions that joined the strike against the three papers after they stopped publishing. The pact allows the Post to go to press immediately, and requires Murdoch by and large to go along with whatever settlement terms the unions can win later from the Times and the News. In exchange, Murdoch gained an important concession from the pressmen that will hold for the Post regardless of what the two other papers agree to. Under that...
...Murdoch was under far less economic pressure to go it alone against fellow publishers than was former Post Owner Dorothy Schiff during the 114-day strike of 1962-63. Schiff settled with the unions 28 days before the other papers, insisting that otherwise the Post would fold. Murdoch was reported to be losing up to $12 million a year on the paper before the strike, so by not publishing he may merely have been cutting his losses. Additionally, Murdoch's New York magazine and Village Voice picked up a circulation and ad revenue windfall from the strike-Voice...
Medieval studies at Harvard is not a department and offers no degree. The Committee on Medieval Studies, chaired by Bloomfield and John E. Murdoch, professor of the History of Science, was established in 1969 to promote and coordinate medieval studies...
...newspaper have the final say for advertising and circulation concerns. Since newspapers that win Pulitzer prizes by digging up city hall scandals usually sell well, everyone's happy--as in the case of many Knight-Ridder papers. But this is not always the case, as the Rupert Murdoch papers demonstrate...