The Washington Independent » Rupurt Murdoch http://washingtonindependent.com National News in Context Thu, 10 May 2012 20:13:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anchutz Buys The Weekly Standard http://washingtonindependent.com/47667/anchutz-buys-the-weekly-standard http://washingtonindependent.com/47667/anchutz-buys-the-weekly-standard#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:04:35 +0000 David Weigel http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=47667 Conservative media mogul Phillip Anchutz, and his Clarity Media Group, has bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. That greatly expands Anchutz’s beltway empire — he launched and owned the Washington Examiner, which has been beefing up its staff.

I asked Examiner opinion page editor Mark Tapscott whether More...

]]> Conservative media mogul Phillip Anchutz, and his Clarity Media Group, has bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. That greatly expands Anchutz’s beltway empire — he launched and owned the Washington Examiner, which has been beefing up its staff.

I asked Examiner opinion page editor Mark Tapscott whether there’d be any cross-pollination between the two publications. “I am ecstatic about the move and the prospect of working with Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes,” he said.

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