Pittsburgh / New York City / Hobart / New York / Wapping / Sydney / Islands / London / Adelaide / /
Company
CBS / Viacom / Microsoft’s Bill Gates / Cruden Investments / Vivendi / Sky Global / NBC / Metromedia / Bharat Kumar Marya / News Data Security / Gemstar / GM’s Hughes Electronics / King World Productions / News Datacom Research Limited / News International / CNN / BSkyB / The Pittsburgh National Bank / Goldman Sachs / AOL Time Warner / John Wiley & Sons Inc. / Ron Perelman / AOL Time Warner’s John / Warner Communications / Citibank / News Limited / Walt Disney Corporation / DirecTV / Queensland Press Limited / Endo-Lase Inc / Echostar / /
Continent
America / North America / /
Country
Bermuda / Panama / Liberia / United Kingdom / China / British Virgin Islands / Israel / India / United States / Hong Kong / /
Currency
USD / AUD / / /
Event
M&A / Business Partnership / Person Communication and Meetings / Judicial Event / Person Travel / /
Facility
Wapping plant / Israel’s Weizman Institute / Information Superhighway / New York City penthouse / /
IndustryTerm
archetypal technology war / crisis management / media icons / mid-1990s telecommunications deals / fledged network / media magnate / Web guerillas / media wars / off-balance-sheet accounting practices / bank / position audit / telecommunications / satellite broadcasts / diamond mining / Internet opportunities / information technology / fraudulent accounting / media players / civilization systems / interactive television portals / Internet stocks / cable networks / satellite network / encryption technology / Internet advertising / trans-national media empire / media trends / public relations stance / media moguls / media markets / Internet division / wireless technologies / /
Movie
Nineteen Eighty-Four / /
NaturalFeature
Sun Valley / Family Channel / /
Organization
Reagan Administration / Australian Tax Office / Australian Foresight Institute / Israel’s Weizman Institute / Labour Party / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / China’s embassy in Belgrade / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Forbes / Federal Communications Commission / Society of Graphical and Allied Trades / European Monetary Union / Oxford University / Republican Party / Manhattan Institute / Wendy Rohm’s Murdoch Mission / Murdoch Mission / Voltaire Society / Random House Australia / ubercritical BBC World Service / House of Lords / Chinese government / /
Person
Keith Murdoch / David Brown / Henry Yuen / Robin Farquharson / Bill Gates / Sam Chisholm / James Murdoch / Neil Chenoweth / Margaret Thatcher / George Orwell / Irwin Stelzer / Murdoch Farquharson / Alex Burns / Lachlan Murdoch / John Malone / Chris Patten / Pat Robertson / Wendy Goldman / Michael Milken / Tony Blair / Anna Murdoch / Charlie Ergen / Peter Huber / Wendy Deng / Anthony Giddens / Ted Turner / Peter Chernin / Wendy Rohm / Gerry Levin / Leo Krieger / Michael Eisner / Steve Ross / Michael Clinger / Rupert Murdoch / Bailey / Pragmatic Foresight By Alex Burns / /
Position
last governor / Prime Minister / secretary / player / producer / Cable News Network cofounder / unknown bank executive / junk bond dealer / business model / newspaper proprietor to international media magnate / chief operating officer / political analyst / analyst / adviser / writer / chief / /