On MARCH 3rd Jeremy Hunt, Britain's culture secretary, effectively cleared the way for New York-based News Corporation to take full ownership of BSkyB, a British broadcaster.

3月3日，英国文化大臣杰里米·亨特切实有效地为美国新闻集团全资收购英国天空广播公司铺平了道路。

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The sale represents a defeat for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which wanted to combine the distribution operations of its New York Post with Newsday's.

此次竞标意味着默多克(Rupert Murdoch)旗下的新闻集团(News Corporation)惨遭失败。 新闻集团曾想把《纽约邮报》同《Newsday》的销售业务合并在一起。

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Mike Jones is the hired gun executing a new strategy that News Corporation expects will take MySpace back to the top.

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If they were to put the paper up for sale, it would fetch an enormous price from one of a long list of buyers, including Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the New York Times Company and the Washington Post Company, who all doubtless believe they could run it better.

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The chief executive of the Royal Opera House and the BBC's former director of news, Tony Hall, has been appointed the corporation's new director general.

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