JAMES MURDOCH SAYS HACKERGATE DIDN’T FORCE HIM TO STEP DOWN
March 15, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
MURDOCH’S “PROXY” IN U.K. ARRESTED AGAIN
March 13, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
For the second time, Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International and onetime editor of News of the World and The Sun, has been arrested in connection with the telephone hacking scandal that has rocked Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire. Police arrested Brooks and her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, at their home in [...]
COULD U.K. POLICE PROBE OF NEWS CORP BE TAINTED?
March 7, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Britain’s attorney general, Dominic Grieve, who serves as the chief legal adviser to the government, is examining the damning testimony by the head of Scotland Yard’s investigation into alleged telephone hacking and bribery by News International journalists after receiving “at least one complaint” that her remarks were potentially in contempt of court. Sue Akers, the [...]
YET ANOTHER ARREST IN NEWS CORP’S NEWSPAPER SCANDAL
March 2, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
NEWS CORP SHAREHOLDERS MOUNTING NEW REVOLT AGAINST MURDOCH
March 1, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Several prominent News Corp shareholders reportedly are prepared to try again to oust James Murdoch from the board of the media giant following his decision to step down as head of News International, the scandal-plagued division that oversees the company’s U.K. newspapers. A shareholders’ revolt last year that also sought James Murdoch’s removal from the [...]
JAMES MURDOCH QUITS SCANDAL-PLAGUED NEWS INTERNATIONAL
February 29, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Without explanation, James Murdoch resigned today (Wednesday) as head of News International, the umbrella group for News Corp’s British newspaper business. His resignation came just days after the successful launch of a new NI title, The Sun on Sunday, which was directly overseen by his father, News Corp Chairman/CEO Rupert Murdoch, and Tom Mockridge, News [...]
WIFE OF EX-P.M. BLAIR SAYS SHE WAS PHONE-HACKING VICTIM
February 23, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The latest public figure in Britain to file suit against Rupert Murdoch’s News International is Cherie Blair, the wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Her attorney, Graham Atkins, said that the lawsuit was filed “in relation to the unlawful interception of her voicemails,” presumably by reporters and private investigators working for the now defunct [...]
REPORT: NEWS CORP NEARS BIG SETTLEMENT WITH U.K. SINGER
February 22, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
The manager of British singer Charlotte Church has denied a Financial Times report that she has settled her invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against News International, the parent of the now-defunct News of the World for £500,000 (about $750,000). Of six “test” cases related to the NoW‘s voicemail hacking scandal due to go to trial on Monday, Church’s [...]
MURDOCH: ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
February 22, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
A day after News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch lifted the suspensions of ten arrested senior journalists working for his daily tabloid The Sun, he sent an email to the staff of the newspaper warning that he will not “protect people who have paid public officials.” Underlining that resolve, he said, “We will obey the law. [...]
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 [...]