Investor Irenic asks News Corp to explore alternatives to combination with Fox

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In the letter dated Nov. 20, Irenic said the combination with Fox does not serve News Corp’s strategic goals.

In October, media mogul Rupert Murdoch proposed to reunite his media empire by combining News Corp and Fox Corp nearly a decade after the companies split. The companies said they had formed special committees to evaluate the proposal.