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News Corporation

The News Corporation is an Australian media conglomorate that operates world-wide. Its major shareholder and managing director is Rupert Murdoch. It is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

The holdings of News Corp include:

Australian newspapers
- the Herald-Sun
- The Daily Telegraph
- The Australian[?]
UK newspapers
- the tabloid The Sun
- the broadsheet The Times
US newspapers and magazines
- the New York Post
- TV Guide
TV stations
- Sky Television the near monopoly pay-television operator in the United Kingdom, operating in much of Europe
- Fox Network a US-wide broadcast television network
- Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news channel
- Star TV[?], an Asian satellite TV service
the HarperCollins[?] book publishing company
20th Century Fox film production company
Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team

News Corporation website (http://www.newscorp.com/)
Complete list of News Corp's holdings (http://www.cjr.org/owners/newscorp.asp) - Columbia Journalism Review

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