JAMES MURDOCH BLAMES UNDERLINGS FOR HACKING COVER-UP

James Murdoch reiterated today (Tuesday) that subordinates intentionally kept him in the dark about the extent of voicemail hacking at News of the World, the now-defunct tabloid owned by his father’s News Corp conglomerate. Asked during an appearance in London before the Leveson committee’s investigation of British media ethics why the tabloid’s then-editor, Colin Myler, [...]

NEWS CORP ADMITS IT HAS BREACHED FCC OWNERSHIP RULE

With News Corp undoubtedly facing increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. as the phone-hacking scandal expands in the U.K., the company is acting to correct a breach of FCC laws regarding foreign ownership. The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the media conglomerate will likely suspend half the voting rights of foreign shareholders to [...]

ANTI-NEWS CORP CRUSADER MAY ASK FBI TO STEP IN

Mark Lewis, a British lawyer who is representing several of the celebrities who fell victim to reporters and private investigators who hacked into their voicemail on behalf of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers in the U.K., has indicated that he may ask the FBI to step in to investigate possible criminal acts by those papers in the [...]

ANOTHER U.S. CELEBRITY MAY SUE NEWS CORP IN HACKING SCANDAL

One day after British attorney Mark Lewis flew to the U.S. for discussions with American attorneys about filing lawsuits against News Corp for hacking the voicemail of three clients while they were on U.S. soil, another lawyer has told Britain’s Guardian newspaper that he is exploring the possibility of doing the same thing for one [...]

MURDOCH AND CO. FACE NEW SCANDALS

While it is unlikely that any coordinated planning was involved, several news outlets yesterday and today (Tuesday) rolled out investigative projects targeting Rupert Murdoch and News Corp, — among them Britain’s BBC, the London Independent, and America’s PBS. The BBC report claimed that the News Corp software company NDS cracked the access codes used by [...]

JAMES MURDOCH QUITS NEWS INTERNATIONAL BOARD

James Murdoch, who, as chairman of News International, had been the public face of his father Rupert’s newspaper business in the U.K. as scandal engulfed it beginning in 2009, has removed himself from the unit’s board. The announcement comes just weeks after he had resigned as chairman. Although he will now focus his attention on [...]

FORMER NEWS INTERNATIONAL CHIEF QUESTIONED AGAIN BY POLICE

Rebekah Brooks, once regarded as the most powerful woman in the British news media, was questioned by police again today (Thursday) purportedly about new evidence of illegal activity turned over to them by News Corp’s management and standards committee. Brooks was arrested last week on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, a [...]

JAMES MURDOCH SAYS HACKERGATE DIDN’T FORCE HIM TO STEP DOWN

James Murdoch has apologized but has accepted no blame for the telephone hacking scandal at the London newspapers overseen by News International, the News Corp unit that he headed at the time. “Clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, I acknowledge that wrongdoing should have been uncovered earlier,” Murdoch said in a seven-page letter to a [...]

EX-NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER WRITES BLOG ITEM, IS ARRESTED

Neville Thurlbeck, the former chief reporter for the News of the World, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of intimidating a witness. While the witness was not identified by police, he is believed to be Will Lewis, who heads an internal committee set up by News Corp to ferret out and turn over to authorities possibly [...]

YET ANOTHER ARREST IN NEWS CORP’S NEWSPAPER SCANDAL

Add a 22nd name to the list of journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s flagship newspaper, the London Sun, and the now-defunct Sunday tabloid News of the World, who have been arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into voicemail hacking and the alleged bribery of police and public officials. Acting on information received from News [...]

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