Word: murdoch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcement a year ago cheered Britain: Rupert Murdoch, the brash, bossy Australian who had bought the staid, venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...
...gray pages, and instituted a cleaner, livelier layout. Circulation rose 6.7% to 297,787 for the second half of 1981, compared with the same period in 1980, and Evans was named "editor of the year" by his peers. No matter. Last week, as doomsayers had predicted right along, Murdoch forced Evans...
...Rupert Murdoch, the Australian newspaper mogul, bought the afternoon Post in 1976 and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He moved it away from the traditional role of the afternoon paper--providing the day's developing news, with lots of commentary and business reporting--and turned to the stuff that neither television nor the more respectable print outlets were doing. The Post went heavily into crime ("Gutsy Hell Camp Victim Foils Thugs"--a story about a mugging of a concentration camp survivor in yesterday's edition), sentiment ("Medal for New York's bravest little girl...") and gossip (at least...
...Post in the afternoon just for the sports. With stories like that of George Steinbrenner's tumultous reign over the New York Yankees--controversial, complicated and capable of generating more news and rumor than television could possibly cover--the Post carved a very comfortable niche for itself. The Murdoch formula quickly boosted circulation from 100,000 to 675,000 by 1977, and now--thanks largely to a cash giveaway contest called "Wingo"--he sells 910,000 every...
Though "any good school chorus would have done," according to John Parker Murdoch, director of the tour-sponsoring International Artists Series, he expresses pleasure at Harvard's "strong Gilbert and Sullivan tradition." The Harvard G & S singers till now have performed only inside the college or for patrons; the Savoyard encounter will mark their first big public engagement, says a group member...