Loory: Rupert Murdoch is an international media baron who owns newspapers, television and cable outlets, Internet platforms, magazines, movie studios and book publishers in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. One morning in April, the 76-year-old media baron sat down to breakfast with Richard Zannino, chief executive officer of Dow Jones, and told Zannino he would pay $5 billion to buy the information empire Zannino controls.
Murdoch: Fox on the hunt
Monday, June 18, 2007 | 12:47 a.m. CDT;
updated 7:10 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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