Who Owns the News?

Just when I was ready to put up an "On Vacation" sign until the end of the school holiday, Economist. com posted an article from its print edition about how Rupert Murdoch may become Arthur Sulzberger Jr.'s "puppet master" if things get any worse at The New York Tmes. The names probably don't mean much to you now, but they will after we examine the impact media ownership has on news delivered around the world. Media moguls are a fascinating crowd, often bigger-than-life figures like Murdoch, Richard Branson and Oprah Winfrey, but new technology has created a whole new cast of characters and a new definition of what's news. We'll take a look at some media moguls, old and new, after break.