News Corporation’s Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international company, British lawmakers have said.... Read more»
Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor, and her husband were among six people arrested by British police in dawn raids Tuesday connected with the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.... Read more»
Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has again topped Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires.... Read more»
James Murdoch stepped down as News International executive chairman Wednesday morning over allegations of bribery at The Sun. This is just the latest in a series of tumultuous events surrounding News Corporation.... Read more»
Global media baron Rupert Murdoch pledged to not close The Sun newspaper after five of its staff were arrested Saturday morning in London on suspicion of bribery.... Read more»
Hundreds of police officers, many wearing riot helmets, marched into lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park last week. The first thing the police did was clear out the journalists so that they could not see what was going on. Ironically, the owners of at least three New York newspapers could not have been happier.... Read more»
Rupert Murdoch apologized for the phone hacking scandal, but defended his company against angered investors at the News Corporation’s shareholder meeting on Friday, the New York Times reports.... Read more»1
New documents published today cast doubt on News Corporation’s claims that top executives and editors at the now-defunct News of the World were unaware of widespread phone hacking at the paper.... Read more»
The allegations against News Corp. of wide-scale corruption and obstruction of justice could violate a much bigger law than hacking: the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.... Read more»
The FBI is in the initial stages of an investigation of News Corp. over allegations employees hacked into a rival’s website and its reporters sought access to phone records of 9/11 victims, Bloomberg reported Friday.... Read more»
The embattled media conglomerate News Corporation and its independent directors have not only hired top criminal defense lawyers, they’ve also hired former Justice Department prosecutors well-versed in U.S. bribery law.... Read more»
The scandal facing the Murdoch empire that has dominated media news has certainly been riveting. But has it taught us anything we didn’t already know?... Read more»
British Prime Minister David Cameron has told the British parliament that he wishes he had never hired former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications director. (With video.)... Read more»
Rupert Murdoch described an appearance before British lawmakers Tuesday to answer questions over alleged phone hacking by News of the World as “the most humble day of my life.”... Read more»
A former News of the World journalist who made allegations about phone hacking at the tabloid newspaper has been found dead, police say.
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Britain’s phone hacking scandal enters its third week with no sign of slowing down. Sunday, came two bomb-shells.... Read more»
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