Is Rupert Murdoch on borrowed time as News Corp. CEO? It sounds that way. I was a working reporter overseas and in the United States for some years and it’s clear trial balloons are now being sent out via news stories to see the impact of news that Murdoch might go bye-bye in his present job.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.