RUPERT MURDOCH

IBTimes culled the most notable, or outrageous, Twitter moments of 2012. Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch.

According to MediaFinder, 82 magazines stopped printing in 2012, including such storied titles as Newsweek. IBTimes lists the most notable closures of the year.

Radio DJs are experiencing backlash over a prank call to Kate Middleton that may have led to the suicide of a nurse. But did they break any laws?

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch announced that he will shut down the iPad-only newspaper The Daily. Why did it fail?

Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, is expected to head News Corp.'s newly created publishing company.

Almost one-half of all online users consider social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to be uncivil forms of communication.

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch caused controversy on Twitter (yet again), when he complained about how the "Jewish-owned" press is covering the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The latest presidential election and cable TV news coverage underscored the extremely polarized state of politics in the contemporary U.S.

Lawmakers in Germany, France and Italy are considering measures that would force Google to pay newspaper publishers for including their content in its search results.

The Fox News Channel seemed all-too-willing to call the election for President Obama, a sign of how vital cable programming is to Murdoch's News Corp.

Microsoft will reportedly release Office Mobile, the Office application optimized for smartphones and tablets, on both iOS and Android platforms in "early 2013."

Political ad spending plus red-hot Fox ratings are expected to boost the fiscal first-quarter earnings of News Corp. (Nasdaq:NWSA).

New York-area newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday and the Newark Star-Ledger, have offered to print copies of the Daily News, whose presses lost power.

Pearson confirms it will merge Penguin Books with Random House to create the world's largest publisher of trade books.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is denying reports that it’s trying to purchase the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune – reports that ran in those papers themselves.

Rupert Murdoch, who bought the Wall Street Journal five years ago, now has his eyes on two more major and venerable American newspapers, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune,

UK PM David Cameron is under pressure to set up a Leveson-style inquiry into the BBC following the Jimmy Savile child-abuse scandal.

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch declared on Twitter that “any shareholders with complaint should take profits and sell!”

The British royals are not suing U.K. tabloid The Sun after owner Rupert Murdoch defied their wishes and published Prince Harry's nude photos.

News Corp. is reversing its decision to block Google from indexing content from its paywalled UK newspaper, The Times.

News Corp.'s stock climbed to a 52-week high of $24.69 before closing at $24.50 on Thursday. The jump came two days after Anthony DiClemente, an analyst for Barclays Capital, upgraded News Corp.'s stock rating to "overweight."