Rupert Murdoch calls off proposed Fox-News Corp merger

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Rupert Murdoch had been exploring a reunion of Fox and News Corp about 10 years after he split the companies.

from Murdoch, its chairman, and his son Lachlan Murdoch that "determined that a combination is not optimal for the shareholders" of either of the companies at the time.from shareholders in recent months, who didn't believe a merger would show the true value of News Corp. if it merged with Fox., the companies said they had formed a special committee to consider the deal.

A combination of the two companies would have unified leadership in Murdoch's empire and cut costs. News Corp. owns Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones. Fox, with what was left over from the $71.3 billion Twenty-First Century Fox sale to Disney in 2019, owns right wing networks Fox News and Fox Business, which is a CNBC competitor.

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