News Limited publishes a further thirty magazine titles across Australia.
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18 Facts About News Limited
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Until the formation of News Corporation in 1979, News Limited was the principal holding company for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch and his family.
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In 2004, News Limited Corporation announced its intention to reincorporate to the United States.
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News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson and funded by the Collins Group mining empire for the purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda, when he purchased the Broken Hill Barrier Miner and the Port Pirie Recorder.
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News Limited went on to purchase Adelaide's weekly Mail and to found The News, a daily newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia.
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In 1964, News Limited made its next important advance when it established The Australian, Australia's first national daily newspaper, based initially in Canberra and later in Sydney.
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Also in 1964, News Limited made Rupert Murdoch's first overseas newspaper investment – a 29.
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The News Limited holding in INL fluctuated over the years and was just over 49 percent in 1997.
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On 12 July 2006, News Limited announced the creation of a new division, News Digital Media, to manage the operations of the news site news.
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NDS had originally been set up to provide security to News Limited Corp's pay TV interests but emails obtained by Fairfax Media revealed they had pursued a wider agenda by distributing the keys to rival set top box operators and seeking to obtain phone records of suspected rivals.
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News Limited bought a television station in Wollongong, New South Wales, hoping to use it to break into the Sydney television market, but found himself frustrated by Australia's cross-media ownership laws, which prevented him from owning both a major newspaper and television station in the same city.
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News Limited saw a way to do that through the News Corp publication The Australian.
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Parliamentary petition initiated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a Royal Commission investigating the diversity and integrity of print media, focused primarily on News Limited Corp, raised more than 500,000 signatures in November 2020.
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News Limited expanded its newspaper holdings in 1987 when it acquired The Herald and Weekly Times, which published two newspapers in Melbourne as well as large stakes in several other newspaper publishers.
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News Limited went on to acquire the remaining shares of Brisbane's Queensland Newspapers, Adelaide's Advertiser Newspapers and Hobart's Davies Brothers.
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In 1991, News Limited spun off its longtime magazine house, Southdown Press, as Pacific Magazines and Printing, and sold the former Advertiser magazines, renamed Murdoch Magazines, to Matt Handbury.
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News Limited re-entered the magazine market in 2000 with the start of News Magazines.
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In 2006, News Limited returned to being a major player in the Australian magazine business with the purchase of Independent Print Media Group's FPC Magazines.
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