Michael S. Smith, who was announced this week as the new White House decorator, is a native of California whose style is steeped in European tradition. ...more

January 18, 2009

"The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch," by Michael Wolff (Broadway Books, $29.95) ...more

December 7, 2008

Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, a longtime fixture on the list of the world's richest people, now is ensconced atop The Associated Press' rankings of the top-paid chief executives in the United States. ...more

August 22, 2008

France's broadcast authority has banned French channels from marketing TV shows to children younger than 3 years old, to shield them from developmental risks it says television viewing poses at that age. ...more

August 21, 2008

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his media conglomerate is "very unlikely" to be a part of any deal for Yahoo Inc., scuttling talk that Microsoft Corp. was making headway in enlisting the media mogul as part of a deal to break up the Internet search company. ...more

July 12, 2008

Few families outside the war-torn Middle East or nature-ravaged Asian countries have sustained so many personal tragedies as the Kennedys, who were once hailed as America's Camelot. Sen. Ted Kennedy's terminal brain cancer is only the latest "curve ball" (his wife's words) tossed at the family. ...more

June 8, 2008

Few families outside the war-torn Middle East or nature-ravaged Asian countries have sustained so many personal tragedies as the Kennedys, who were once hailed as America's Camelot. ...more

June 7, 2008

Rupert Murdoch's effort to turn his $580 million MySpace purchase into an advertising powerhouse has turned News Corp. into a toxic stock. ...more

April 22, 2008

The family that owns Norfolk, Va.-based Landmark Communications is exploring a sale of the company's businesses, including The Weather Channel and nine daily newspapers. ...more

January 4, 2008

Real estate mogul Sam Zell strode into Tribune Co.'s ornate headquarters in his trademark jeans and cowboy boots and declared that things will be different at the debt-laden, 160-year-old newspaper and TV company. ...more

December 22, 2007