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Australia's richest man Kerry Packer dead at 68
Kerry Packer, Australias richest man, a pugnacious media mogul with a passion for sport and gambling, died overnight in Sydney, his television network said on December 27. He was 68.
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Billionaire Internet investor Son mulling tie-up with TV business
Billionaire Internet investor Masayoshi Son said on Saturday that he would consider a business tie-up with a major Japanese television network at the center of a controversial takeover battle.
London Times goes compact
The venerable Times newspaper of London ended more than two centuries of tradition on Saturday when its last edition in broadsheet format appeared, to be replaced by a smaller, narrower newspaper that does not want to be called a tabloid.
India's religious channels fuel Hindu revivalism
Private television networks in India are turning to religion to tap a massive Hindu viewership but say their religious channels are neither a platform to grab votes for Indias Hindu nationalist rulers nor an attempt to peddle faith.
Hooray for the BBC
The standoff between BBC chair Greg Dyke and the Blair government over the so-called dodgy dossier is significant not only within the context of the war on Iraq, but also for press freedom as a whole.
