Ethical Breaches at News of the World
| Case Code: BECG119 Case Length: 15 Pages Period: 2011 Pub Date: 2012 Teaching Note: Available |
Price: Rs.500 Organization: News Corp., News of The World Industry: Newspaper Countries: UK Themes: Business Ethics, Media Ethics, Corporate Governance |
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Background Note
American multinational conglomerate, News Corp, was incorporated in 1979 in Australia and was headquartered in New York. Rupert Murdoch was the founder, Chairman, and CEO of the News Group which was the world's second largest media house in terms of revenue, as of 2011. As on September 30, 2011, the company had total annual revenues of approximately US$34 billion. News Corp had operations in six industry segments: cable network programming; filmed entertainment; television; direct broadcast satellite television; publishing; and others. Apart from these, News Corp had made many acquisitions over the years in the fields of film entertainment, the Internet, magazines, television, and books. One of these was the takeover of The News of The World in 1969 for £34 million...
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