WHY HAS MURDOCH RETURNED ARRESTED REPORTERS TO WORK?

Tom Watson, the Labor MP who has spearheaded the investigation into allegedly unethical and illegal activities by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers in the U.K., has raised questions about Murdoch’s decision to allow the 10 reporters working for The Sun who were arrested in connection with the scandal to return to work. In a [...]

MURDOCH WAGES COUNTER-OFFENSIVE

The sun was shining in London over the weekend, something that News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch took note of in one of his posts on Twitter on the same day that he announced that another Sun will be dawning in the U.K. next week. Called The Sun on Sunday, the newspaper will replace the News [...]

SUN REPORTERS TERRIFIED THEY’LL BE ARRESTED NEXT

Last weekend’s arrests of five top journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid The Sun have struck fear into the staffs of all three Murdoch newspapers in the U.K., The Sun, The Times of London, and The Sunday Times. News International, the umbrella group for the newspapers, has acknowledged that evidence gathered by its own [...]

INVESTMENT ADVISERS WARN: NEWS CORP’S SCANDALS MAY BE COSTLY

Britain’s Pensions & Investment Research Consultants (PIRC), a leading shareholders advisory group, has warned that the current investigation into the possible bribery of police and other officials by The Sun poses a far more burdensome challenge to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp than the telephone hacking scandal. As a U.S.-based company, it could be subject to [...]

MURDOCH ROCKED BY NEW SCANDAL

Rupert Murdoch was reportedly flying to London on Sunday following the latest bombshell in the continuing scandal involving his British newspapers — the arrest of five senior journalists at The Sun, Britain’s largest circulating daily newspaper (2.7 million copies). They included the newspaper’s deputy editor, chief reporter, chief foreign correspondent, picture editor, and a reporter. [...]

DESPITE COSTLY HACKING SCANDAL, NEWS CORP PROFITS SOAR

Forget about the fact that News Corp may have to pay $200-400 million to settle all of the invasion-of-privacy cases that have been filed against it in the wake of the recent telephone hacking. The company on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $1.06 billion, up 65 percent above last year’s $642 million. Revenue rose to [...]

HACKING DETECTIVE MUST NAME HIGHER-UPS, COURT RULES

A British appeals court has turned down efforts by the private detective at the center of the U.K. telephone hacking scandal to avoid revealing the names of the higher-ups at The News of the World and/or News International who paid him to intercept the voicemail of British celebrities. The detective, Glenn Mulcaire, is expected to [...]

FOUR MORE NEWS CORP REPORTERS ARRESTED

Opening a new phase in the investigation that began with allegations of voicemail hacking by reporters for the now defunct London tabloid News of the World, police on Saturday arrest four current and former reporters for the Sun, another London newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch. A serving police officer was also arrested as Scotland Yard [...]

NEWS CORP SCANDAL WIDENS; BRIBERY NOW ALLEGED

News Corp has admitted that a former editor who worked for its News of the World and London Sun newspapers in the U.K. ordered a reporter in 2009 to bribe a female prison guard in order to get information about a child killer. Bloomberg News reported today (Thursday) that the editor, Matt Nixson, was subsequently [...]

REPORT: PBS DEVELOPING SPECIAL ABOUT U.K. HACKING SCANDAL

PBS’s Frontline is preparing a special about the telephone hacking scandal that has embroiled — and continues to dog — News Corp, Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera has disclosed in a Facebook post. Rivera said that he learned about plans for the special from veteran investigative reporter Lowell Bergman, a colleague during their days at [...]

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