James Murdoch - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 17:42:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Report: Rupert Murdoch Interested in the LA Times* A day after KPBS relayed Doug Manchester’s possible interest in acquiring the LA Times, there is news of a much bigger media mogul sniffing around this city’s prized daily newspaper. According to LA Times reporter Meg James, her new boss could potentially turn out to be none other than Rupert Murdoch:

News Corp. executives have had preliminary talks with debt holders about acquiring the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, according to two ranking News Corp. executives and others familiar with the situation.

These people cautioned that talks are in the early stages, and that a deal is by no means certain… On trips to Los Angeles, Murdoch is known to mark up the newspaper with a Sharpie pen to illustrate how he would design pages.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/tribune-latimes-doug-manchester-rupert-murdoch-aaron-kushner-meg-james_b74006#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/tribune-latimes-doug-manchester-rupert-murdoch-aaron-kushner-meg-james_b74006 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=74006 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:55:38 +0000