News Corp. sees profit potential in the tales of princes, sexy soldiers and mysterious millionaires.

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NEW YORK — News Corp. said Monday that it had an unexpected drop in revenue in the most-recent quarter, as revenue from Australian newspapers plunged. The results were short of analysts’ forecasts. Net income in the fiscal first quarter, which ...

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DOVER, Del. — A Delaware judge has approved a $139 million cash settlement between News Corp. and shareholders in a lawsuit over the British phone hacking scandal and the media conglomerate’s purchase of an entertainment company run by News Corp. ...

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NEW YORK — The lawyer for a stuntwoman suing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. over alleged phone hacking said Tuesday that other people have reached out to his team with their own claims. The attorney, Norman Siegel, told the media in ...

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NEW YORK — News Corp. says its shareholders have approved a plan to split into two publicly traded companies. The company says approval came with an overwhelming majority of support. It did not immediately break down vote totals. News Corp. ...

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LOS ANGELES — News Corp. said its board of directors has approved plans to split its entertainment and publishing businesses into two separate companies. The company also adopted a shareholder-rights plan designed to prevent a hostile takeover in the volatile ...

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NEW YORK — News Corp. said Friday that it will spin off its publishing division with $2.56 billion in cash and no debt, giving it the means to invest in digital operations and acquire businesses. The amount of cash the ...

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WASHINGTON — Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks. Welcome to the new digital bookcase, where traditional ink-and-paper textbooks have given ...

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What are the main reasons you would fire outside counsel or have fired outside counsel in the past?

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How do you deal with office gossip? Do you think you deal with it more as an in-house counsel or while working at a law firm? ...

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