Come for the Lady Gaga, stay for the empowerment.

Fielding a faux pitch by the new, Davos-friendly face of Reuters, who’s trying to build a team to take on Bloomberg.

CNN’s new Larry King made his name in the scandal-chasing, privacy-invading British tabloid gutter. He’s now ascended to cable-news royalty, though his past is casting a shadow over the coronation.

Twitter is building a machine to convert 140 characters on Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, narcissism, the struggle for human freedom, and Starbucks into cash—and quick, before its moment passes. Is this asking too much of even the world’s best technologists?

After-theater drinks with the ex–Times reporter, whose new job has her dishing the criticism.

The niche future of the TV mega-personality.

The Richard Florida theory of reality TV.

Width, height, and class.

An incomplete list of political figures who have received News Corp. checks at some point in their careers.

As the empire expanded stateside, it was met with applause.