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65-517: The Cairns Post is a major News Corporation newspaper in Far North Queensland , Australia, that exclusively serves the Cairns area. It has daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, beauty, cars and lifestyle. The Cairns Post is published every weekday and a weekend edition which is called The Weekend Post

130-612: A supermarket tabloid , and in 1976 it purchased the New York Post from Dorothy Schiff for $ 31 million. In 1984, News Corp acquired the Chicago Sun-Times from Field Enterprises (later sold in 1986 to the American Publishing Company subsidiary of Canada-based Hollinger ) for $ 90 million and Travel Weekly and other trade magazines from Ziff Davis . In March 1985, News Corp bought

195-1051: A 20% stake in 1994 for $ 200 million), for $ 2.48 billion in stock and was completed on January 22, 1997. On October 7, 1996, the Fox Entertainment Group launched the Fox News Channel , a 24-hour cable news network to compete against Time Warner 's rival channel CNN . In 1999, News Corporation significantly expanded its music holdings in Australia by acquiring the controlling share in a leading Australian-based label, Michael Gudinski 's Mushroom Records , merging it with already held Festival Records to create Festival Mushroom Records (FMR). Both Festival and FMR were managed by Rupert Murdoch's son James Murdoch for several years. Also mid 1999, The Economist reported that News Corp paid comparatively lower taxes, and Newscorp Investments specifically had made £11.4 billion ($ 20.1 billion) in profits over

260-539: A 20-year old for health reasons to Australia. He initially stayed in Melbourne but later moved to Sydney, carrying on with ink manufacturing. In 1883 he moved to Cairns, hoping to get involved in agriculture, but soon went into establishing the Cairns Post as a weekly paper appearing Thursdays with offices on Lake Street. From May 1887 forward the paper was published biweekly, appearing Wednesdays and Saturdays. In

325-628: A 34% stake in Hughes Electronics (now DirecTV Group ), operator of the largest American satellite TV system, from General Motors for US$ 6 billion. DirecTV was sold to Liberty Media in 2008 in exchange for its stake in News Corporation. In January 2005, shortly after reincorporation in the United States, News Corporation announced that it was buying out Fox Entertainment Group . The manoeuvre delisted Fox from

390-701: A 50% stake in TCF Holdings, the holding company of the movie studio 20th Century Fox from Marc Rich for $ 162 million, and later acquired the remaining stake from Marvin Davis in September for $ 325 million. Two months after the acquisition of the 50% stake in TCF Holdings, on May 6, 1985, News Corp announced it was buying the Metromedia television stations and its syndication arm Metromedia Producers Corporation from John Kluge for $ 3.5 billion, setting

455-575: A 63.6% stake of the Hong Kong-based STAR TV satellite network from Pearson for over $ 500 million, followed by the purchase of the remaining 36.4% in July 1995. Murdoch declared that: (Telecommunications) have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere ... satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. In 1995,

520-615: A Court . Holmes a Court agreed to drop his $ 1.4 billion bid for the Melbourne-based Herald and Weekly Times in return for the right to buy its two Perth newspapers, The West Australian and its afternoon counterpart, The Daily News , as well as the Melbourne television station of Channel 7, HSV-7 . Murdoch in turn acquired Queensland Press in January 1987 via his family company Cruden Investments for $ 700 million. This article about an Australian corporation or company

585-526: A consequence of the 1893 economic crisis. Edwin had to give up his position in 1898 due to a “serious illness” and he died in 1901 in Cairns. After his death it was found out, that the Post was actually held in the name of AJ Draper's wife Georgina. In August 1900 the paper became biweekly and four years later it became a daily paper. In December 1907 the paper became The Cairns Morning Post and in July 1909 it

650-546: A contract with Dow Jones to provide content and services to the network, the Fox Entertainment Group officially launched the Fox Business Network on October 15, 2007. Alexis Glick, the network's original morning show host and vice president of business news, indicated that its lawyers had reviewed the details of Dow Jones' contract with CNBC, but noted that it would still "actively use" other Dow Jones properties. In September 2009, News Corp established NewsCore,

715-641: A controlling interest in The News . News Limited operates today as News Corporation's Australian brand and includes ownership of The Australian , operating out of Surry Hills , in Sydney . News Ltd. made its first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when it purchased the San Antonio Express and News (the two papers merged in 1984). Soon afterwards it founded the National Star ,

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780-545: A controlling stake in The Advertiser of Adelaide in 1929. From 1929 until 1987, HWT owned and operated Melbourne radio station 3DB . In 1929, 3DB along with 3UZ participated in experimental television broadcasts using the Radiovision system. The Advertiser took a stake in The News two years later. The News was sold in 1949. The HWT bought The West Australian in 1969. By 1986 Queensland Press

845-605: A global wire service set up to provide news stories to all of News Corp's journalistic outlets. In April 2010, News Corporation sold Bulgarian broadcaster bTV , which it launched on 1 June 2000, as part of a deal to Central European Media Enterprises (CME) for $ 400 million in addition to another $ 13 million for working capital adjustment. The deal included cable channels bTV Comedy and Btv Cinema and News Corporation's 74% stake in Radio Company CJ which included five radio stations. In September 2010, due to

910-625: A small provincial paper he traveled Victoria as an insurance salesman. Later he followed his younger brother Alexander Frederick John "AJ" Draper (b. 1863 in Williamstown, d. 1928 in Cairns) to Cairns. AJ Draper started initially a career with the Bank of Australasia which took him through rural Victoria and New South Wales. After being sent to Townsville he moved to Cairns in 1885 where he became involved in numerous business interests and also filled

975-423: A wider agenda by distributing the keys to rival set-top box operators and seeking to obtain phone records of suspected rivals. The emails were from the hard drive of NDS European chief Ray Adams. In 2012, it was also revealed that Australian Federal police were working with UK police to investigate hacking by News Corp. On June 28, 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that, after concerns from shareholders in response to

1040-731: Is irrelevant and in the circumstances I feel it is proper for me to resign from News Corp, and apologize to those hurt by the actions of the News of the World." In 2012, following a BBC Panorama report, allegations were made that News Corp subsidiary NDS Group had used hackers to undermine pay TV rivals around the world. Some of the victims of the alleged hacking, such as Austar , were later taken over by News Corp and others such as Ondigital later went bust. NDS had originally been set up to provide security to News Corp's pay TV interests but emails obtained by Fairfax Media revealed they had also pursued

1105-407: Is published on Saturdays. It is the oldest business in Cairns and has been operating continuously for more than a century. The Cairns Post claims to be dating back to 1882. The first incarnation of a newspaper called The Cairns Post was published first on 10 May 1883 and was founded by the ink manufacturer Frederick Thomas Wimble . The son of an English second-generation ink-maker migrated as

1170-641: The Cairns Argus , founded in 1888 by William Graham Henderson , who initially came from Sydney to Cairns to join Wimble, as the sole newspaper in town. Today's Post dates back to 1895 when Edwin "Hoppy" Charles Mollet Draper founded as head of E. Draper & Co. the Morning Post as a weekly publication. He was born in 1861 to a prominent family in Williamstown, Victoria . After he bankrupted

1235-451: The "7/7" bombings on London's transit system, family members of British troops killed overseas, Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old missing British girl who was later found dead, actor Hugh Grant and a lawyer representing the family of Princess Diana's lover at the inquest into her death. On July 13, 2011, News Corp withdrew its bid to purchase the final 61% stake in BSkyB after pressure from both

1300-587: The Cairns Post building on 22-24 Abbott Street with its classical colonnade in the inter-war Academic Classical style was built in 1908 and was designed by Harvey Draper (1869-1921), who was another of the Draper brothers. He was one of the most prolific architect of Cairns in that era. He also designed the Adelaide Steamship Company ’s Offices in Cairns (1910), the Jack and Newell Store (1911),

1365-562: The East End resulted in nightly battles outside the new plant. Delivery vans and depots were frequently and violently attacked. Ultimately the unions capitulated. In 1987, News Corp acquired the book publisher Harper and Row for $ 300 million, and later acquired the British book publisher William Collins, Sons in 1989 for $ 721 million, who later merged with Harper to form HarperCollins that same year. In 1988, News Corp acquired

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1430-733: The Fox television network). News Corp was established in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited . News Limited was founded in 1923 in Adelaide by James Edward Davidson , funded by the Collins House mining empire for the purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda; subsequently the controlling interest was bought by the Herald & Weekly Times . In 1949, Keith Murdoch took control of Adelaide's afternoon tabloid The News . When he died in 1952, his son Rupert inherited

1495-633: The Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox ) and Murdoch as CEO, was renamed 21st Century Fox . Murdoch remained chairman for both companies. Shareholders approved the split on June 11, 2013. On June 19, 2013, preliminary trading for the new News Corp on the Australian Securities Exchange commenced in preparation for the formal split that was finalized on June 28, 2013. Shareholders received one share of New News Corp for every four shares they owned of

1560-663: The Hayman Island off the coast of Australia. The events were private and secretive, there are no records available for the agenda or talks given at the conferences, and no uninvited journalists are permitted access. The 2006 event in Pebble Beach , California was led by Rupert Murdoch . According to a copy of the agenda leaked to the Los Angeles Times and other media accounts, issues discussed related from Europe to broadcasting and new media , terrorism to

1625-681: The New York Stock Exchange ; Fox had traded on the NYSE under the ticker FOX . In 2004, Murdoch set aside $ 2 billion and handpicked a team of young executives to look at possible ways to use the Web as a distribution platform. That team was composed of four rising stars: Ross Levinsohn, Adam Bain, Travis Katz , and Michael Kirby. The four became the backbone of what would become News Corp's digital division, Fox Interactive Media. Shortly after, in July 2005, News Corporation purchased

1690-591: The Royal Family . Other allegations put out by The Guardian newspaper include the exploitation, with intent to gain access to or use private information, of a list of 4,332 names or partial names, 2,987 mobile phone numbers, 30 audio tapes of varying length and 91 PIN codes, of a kind required to access the voicemail of the minority of targets who change the factory settings on their mobile phones. The names are said to include those of British victims of September 11, 2001 terror attacks, family members of victims of

1755-535: The Sky Television satellite network in the UK, which incurred massive losses in its early years of operation, which (like many of its business interests) was heavily subsidised with profits from its other holdings until it was able to force rival satellite operator BSB to accept a merger on its terms in 1990. (The merged company, BSkyB , has dominated the British pay-TV market since.) In 1993, News Corp acquired

1820-608: The United States Chamber of Commerce . The Chamber aggressively supported the Republican effort to retake Congress in 2010. This donation and an earlier $ 1 million contribution that News Corporation made to the Republican Governor's Association led media critics to question whether the company had crossed an ethical line for a media company. News Corporation split up to 21st Century Fox and

1885-511: The national policy . The event included speeches from Murdoch, Actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger , former British Prime Minister Tony Blair , Bono , Al Gore , Senator John McCain and Bill Clinton while Israel's President, Shimon Peres , appeared on a panel named "Islam and the West". Other notable attendees included Newt Gingrich and Nicole Kidman . The company's Board of Directors consisted of 17 individuals at

1950-493: The position of mayor for several stints between 1891 and 1927. In January 1885 he founded together with WD Hobson the Cairns Chronicle which evolved into a "rabid tabloid" style paper. In May 1886 he appointed Edwin as editor of the publication. Later that year libelous remarks led to a horsewhipping of Edwin Draper by the Cairns Post publisher FT Wimble. AJ Draper lost control of the scandal-plagued Chronicle as

2015-611: The Americas in New York City. Prior to its split in 2013, it was the world's largest media company in terms of total assets and the world's fourth largest media group in terms of revenue. It had become a media powerhouse since its inception, dominating the news, television, film, and print industries. News Corporation was a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq . Formerly incorporated in Adelaide , South Australia ,

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2080-543: The Asia-Pacific sports network. On November 20, 2012, News Corporation announced that it would acquire a 49% stake in the regional sports network YES Network , owned by the Major League Baseball team New York Yankees . In January 2013, News Corp. attained 54.5% majority control of Sky Deutschland . On February 4, 2013, News Corporation announced the sale of IGN and its related properties to

2145-467: The FBI opened a probe into the hacking of 9/11 victims. Les Hinton, chief executive of the media group's Dow Jones, resigned on July 15, saying, "I have seen hundreds of news reports of both actual and alleged misconduct during the time I was executive chairman of News International and responsible for the company. The pain caused to innocent people is unimaginable. That I was ignorant of what apparently happened

2210-461: The Fijian government's requirement that the country's media outlet must be 90% owned by Fiji Nationals, News Corporation sold 90% of their stake in their Fijian newspapers ( Fiji Times , Nai Lalakai , and Shanti Dut ) to Motibhai Group of Companies. In November 2010, News Corp purchased education technology and student progress tracking company Wireless Generation for $ 360 million. The company

2275-592: The Fox network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) when it was alleged that its Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal. The FCC, however, ruled in Murdoch's favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the public's best interests. It was also noted that the stations themselves were owned by a separate company whose chief shareholder

2340-562: The Labour and Conservative Parties in Parliament. Allegations about the violation of ethical standards by the News Corporation subsidiary News of the World have been speculatively applied to News Corporation holdings in the United States. Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) stated on July 12, 2011, that there should be a government investigation into News Corporation "to ensure that Americans have not had their privacy violated." His statement

2405-590: The McGraw-Hill Media Summit that the Fox Entertainment Group would launch a new business news channel later in the year, which would compete directly against rival network CNBC . Murdoch explained that the channel would be more "business-friendly" than CNBC, because he felt that they "leap on every scandal, or what they think is a scandal." In July 2007, News Corp. reached a deal to acquire Dow Jones & Company , owners of The Wall Street Journal , for $ 5 billion. Despite CNBC already having

2470-832: The Palace Theatre (1913), the Howard Smith Building (1914), the Cairns Ambulance Station (1921), and St. Saviour's Church ( Kuranda , 1915) as well as buildings interstate. The Post building initially comprised the left three bays. Five more bays were added in 1924. The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia . Digitised copies are freely available online for

2535-744: The Philadelphia-based Triangle Publications , publisher of the magazines TV Guide , Seventeen , and the Daily Racing Form for $ 3 billion. To raise money, the trade publications were sold to Reed International . By 1992, News Corp had incurred large debts, which forced it to sell many of the American magazine interests it had acquired in the mid-1980s to K-III Communications , as well spinning off long-held Australian magazines interests as Pacific Magazines . Much of this debt came from its stake in

2600-500: The United Kingdom, whose properties include The Times , The Sun , and the now-defunct News of the World (the subject of a phone hacking scandal that led to its closure in July 2011), Dow Jones & Company (an American publisher of financial news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal ), the book publisher HarperCollins , and the Fox Entertainment Group (then owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and

2665-661: The company was re-incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law after a majority of shareholders approved the move on November 12, 2004. News Corporation was headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas , New York, in the newer 1960s–1970s corridor of the Rockefeller Center complex. On June 28, 2012, after concerns from shareholders in response to its recent scandals and to "unlock even greater long-term shareholder value", founder Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation's assets would be split into two publicly traded companies, one oriented towards media, and

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2730-720: The current incarnation of News Corporation on June 28, 2013. All media and broadcasting assets, except media assets owned by News Limited , now belong to The Walt Disney Company and Fox Corporation , the legal successors to News Corporation (and 21st Century Fox). Meanwhile, newspapers and other publishing assets, including media assets under News Limited , were spun off as a new News Corp. News Corp agreed to sell eight of its television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for approximately $ 1.1 billion as of December 22, 2007. The stations are US Fox affiliates. These stations, along with those already acquired by Oak Hill that were formerly owned by The New York Times Company , formed

2795-746: The economic depression following the Australian banking crisis of 1893 Wimble, who soon after his arrival in Cairns was elected alderman and in 1888 became the first member for the electoral district of Cairns in the Queensland Parliament, lost his fortune. This led also to the end of the Post . Wimble ended also his parliamentary career. He returned to Sydney "with nothing left but my good name". There he had renewed success and regained control of his former company there and published from 1906 Wimble's Reminder , which run until 1957. This left

2860-580: The growth of the competing social network Facebook . The deadline for bids, May 31, 2011, passed without any above the reserve price of $ 100 million being submitted. The rapid deterioration in Myspace's business during the most recent quarter had deterred many potent suitors. Later in June, Specific Media and pop singer Justin Timberlake bought the site for $ 35 million, which CNN reported noted

2925-524: The launch of The Port Phillip Herald . The company publishes the morning daily tabloid Herald Sun , which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper, The Sun News-Pictorial , with its afternoon broadsheet paper, The Herald . The Herald had a 150-year history, and The Sun News-Pictorial a 68-year history, in Melbourne. The HWT had bought The Sun News-Pictorial in 1925. The HWT also publishes The Weekly Times , aimed at farmers and rural businesses. The HWT bought

2990-558: The nucleus of Oak Hill's Local TV LLC division. Cable TV channels owned (in whole or part) and operated by News Corporation include: PLATFORMS The Herald and Weekly Times The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd ( HWT ) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne , Australia . It is owned and operated by News Pty Ltd , which as News Ltd, purchased the HWT in 1987. The HWT's newspaper interests date back to 1840 and

3055-848: The old News Corp. The two new companies began trading on the Nasdaq on July 1, 2013. 21st Century Fox and most of its businesses were later acquired by the Walt Disney Company in March 2019; its U.S. broadcasting, sports, and news assets were spun-off to Fox Corporation , which would be retained under Murdoch ownership. The key trends for News Corporation are (as of the financial year ending June 30): News Corporation organized an annual management conference, discussing media issues related to geopolitics . Attendees included News Corporation executives, senior journalists, politicians and celebrities. Previous events were in Cancún , Mexico, and

3120-457: The other towards publishing. The formal split was completed on June 28, 2013; the original News Corp. was renamed 21st Century Fox and consisted primarily of media outlets, while a new News Corporation was formed to take on the publishing and Australian broadcasting assets. Its major holdings at the time of the split were News Limited (a group of newspaper publishers in Murdoch's native Australia), News International (a newspaper publisher in

3185-457: The periods of 1884 to 1893 and 1909 to 1954. 16°55′20″S 145°46′41″E  /  16.92222°S 145.77806°E  / -16.92222; 145.77806 News Corporation The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited ) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of

3250-445: The previous 11 years but had not paid net corporation tax. It also reported that after an examination of the available accounts, Newscorp could normally have been expected to pay corporate tax of approximately $ 350 million. The article explained that in practice, the corporation's complex structure, international scope, and use of offshore tax havens allowed News Corporation to pay minimal taxes. In late 2003, News Corp acquired

3315-465: The production process of its British newspapers, over which the printing unions had long dominated. A number of senior Australian media moguls were brought into Murdoch's powerhouse, including John Dux, who was managing director of the South China Morning Post . This led to a confrontation with the printing unions National Graphical Association and Society of Graphical and Allied Trades . The move of News International's London operation to Wapping in

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3380-553: The publishing company Ziff Davis . News Corp. had planned to spin off IGN as an independent company, but failed to do so. In July 2011, News Corp closed down the News of the World newspaper in the United Kingdom due to allegations of phone hackings. The allegations include trying to access former Prime Minister Gordon Brown 's voice mail, and obtain information from his bank accounts, family's medical records, and private legal files. Allegations of hacking have also been brought up in relation to former Prime Minister Tony Blair , and

3445-459: The recent scandals and to "unlock even greater long-term shareholder value", News Corporation's assets would be split into two publicly traded companies, one oriented towards media, and the other towards publishing. News Corp's publishing operations were spun out into a second News Corporation with Robert James Thomson , editor of The Wall Street Journal , as CEO. The original News Corporation, which retained most of its media properties (such as

3510-431: The reporting by News Corporation companies. DGA head Nathan Daschle wrote to the chairman of News Corporation company Fox News , Roger Ailes : "In the interest of some fairness and balance , I request that you add a formal disclaimer to your coverage any time any of your programs covers governors or gubernatorial races between now and election day." Around the same time, News Corporation also donated $ 1 million to

3575-493: The social networking website Myspace for $ 580 million. News Corporation had beat out Viacom by offering a higher price for the website, and the purchase was seen as a good investment at the time. Of the $ 580 million purchase price, approximately $ 327 million has been attributed to the value of Myspace according to the financial adviser fairness opinion . Within a year, Myspace had tripled in value from its purchase price. In February 2007, Murdoch announced at

3640-604: The stage for the launch of a fourth U.S. commercial broadcasting television network. On September 4, 1985, Murdoch became a naturalized citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only United States citizens could own American television stations. In 1986, the Metromedia deal was completed, and the Fox Broadcasting Company , simply known as Fox, launched on October 9, with Joan Rivers ' The Late Show as its late-night program, it would later air prime-time programming starting in April 1987. In 1986 and 1987, News Corp (through subsidiary News International ) moved to adjust

3705-432: The time of its break up: In anticipation of US midterm elections , News Corporation donated $ 1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June 2010. The move was criticized by Democrats, who said this was evidence of News Corporation's news outlets conservative leanings (see Fox News Channel controversies ). The Democratic Governors Association also criticized the donation and demanded more transparency in

3770-519: Was "far less than the $ 580 million News Corp. paid for Myspace in 2005." Murdoch went on to call the Myspace purchase a "huge mistake". On July 13, 2011, Rupert Murdoch announced that the company would withdraw its takeover bid for BSkyB due to concerns relating to the News of the World scandal. News Corporation already owned, and continues to own, 39.1% of BSkyB. On June 6, 2012, News Corporation announced that it would buy out ESPN Inc. 's stake in ESPN Star Sports to gain full control over

3835-606: Was a U.S. citizen, Murdoch, although nearly all of the stations' equity was controlled by News Corp. In the same year, News Corporation announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website as well as funding a conservative news magazine, The Weekly Standard . In the same year, News Corp launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in a partnership with Telstra and Publishing & Broadcasting Limited . On July 17, 1996, News Corporation announced that it would acquire television production and broadcasting company New World Communications (who acquired

3900-436: Was a spun off by the Post in 1913. After the death of AJ Draper in 1928 the Post remained in the hands of the Draper family until 1965, when Queensland Press Ltd bought the company. Queensland Press was also the largest shareholder of the Melbourne based publisher The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) which was targeted for a takeover by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in the course of the big media shake-up of 1986/87, which

3965-403: Was echoed on Wednesday by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who specifically requested an investigation into 9/11 victims, as well as Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) who encouraged an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. On July 13, 2011, Representative Peter King (R-NY) wrote a letter to the FBI requesting an investigation into News Corporation's ethical practices, and on July 14,

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4030-473: Was enabled by the Australian Federal Government under Prime Minister Bob Hawke to curry favour with the nation's major newspapers and their owners in order to foster its re-election chances in the 1987 Australian federal election . In the end, after some major assets of HWT were separated out to Murdoch's rival Robert Holmes a Court Murdoch acquired Queensland Press in January 1987 via his family company Cruden Investments for $ 700 million. The first stage of

4095-414: Was renamed The Cairns Post . The Drapers were fiercely opposed to the labour movement. This triggered the foundation of the Cairns Times in 1900, which was later taken over directly by the unions. After taking over the Cairns Argus in 1918 it became a daily newspaper, the Daily Times , which eventually was taken over by the Post in 1935 and incorporated with the weekly Northern Herald , which itself

4160-437: Was the NY City Education Department's partner for its School of One pilot program (now Teach to One ). In late February 2011, News Corp officially put the now-struggling Myspace up for sale, which was estimated to be worth $ 50–200 million. Losses from the last quarter of 2010 were $ 156 million, over double of the previous year, which dragged down the otherwise strong results of parent News Corp. Its struggles were attributed to

4225-486: Was the largest shareholder of HWT which was targeted for a takeover by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in the course of the big media shake-up of 1986/87, which was enabled by the Australian Federal Government under Prime Minister Bob Hawke to curry favour with the nation's major media and their owners in order to foster its re-election chances in the 1987 Australian federal election . In the end, some major assets of HWT were divided up between Murdoch's rival Robert Holmes

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