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...column is being marketed by two Rupert Murdoch syndicates. Murdoch's New York Post managed to report the fuss without mentioning that the Post was carrying the column. Late last week News America Syndicate President Richard Newcombe said that E.A.V. Associates Inc. (a U.S. firm that licenses Vatican art reproductions) originated the column and apparently had not got the proper clearances. After conferring with the Vatican communications director, Archbishop John Foley, Newcombe announced that future columns would carry source references for John Paul's statements and that Foley's office would screen all the editing...
NATURALIZED. Rupert Murdoch, 54, Australian-born press baron whose media holdings include more than 80 publications on three continents, including the Times of London, the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times; as a U.S. citizen, in a ten-minute ceremony in New York City. In order to complete a deal that he made last spring to acquire six Metromedia TV stations, Murdoch must be a U.S. citizen; fcc regulations bar foreigners from owning more than 20% of a broadcast license...
...city daily. He must tame a sometimes scrappy staff of 400 editors and reporters while trying to leave his imprint on the paper. At the same time, the Globe faces increased competition from the Boston Herald, a once-feeble tabloid that has come alive under Rupert Murdoch. No wonder that Janeway, a wry, reflective man not easily given to emotion, occasionally looks weary. "I feel like I'm battling so many scarecrows," he says...
...Statue of Liberty traditionally welcomed to New York Harbor. But the newcomers disembarking at Kennedy Airport or Miami or Los Angeles also include the successful. Baron Guy de Rothschild, for example, recently took refuge in New York City from the vagaries of French Socialism. Australia's publishing tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who has made a deal to buy seven television stations in the U.S., announced in May that he would become a U.S. citizen. The roster of Soviet immigrants includes not only the black-garbed babushkas huddled over their knitting in Brooklyn's Little Odessa but such artists as Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Stern paid slightly more than $55 million in cash for the Manhattan-based paper, approximately what Press Baron Rupert Murdoch had been asking. Murdoch, who acquired the Voice, New York magazine and New West in 1977 for $16 million, decided to sell the 30-year-old weekly two months ago. The paper (circ. 150,000) made about $5 million profit before taxes last year...