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 [...]

WITH SCANDAL EXPANDING, MURDOCH TAKES CHARGE

Six days after the arrests of five senior journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s largest newspaper, the London Sun, on charges that they bribed police and other public officials for information, Murdoch today (Friday), flew into London and made a series of startling announcements. “We are doing everything we can to assist those who were arrested,” he [...]

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 [...]

REPORTERS AT U.K. FIGHT BACK — AT MURDOCH AND POLICE

As the Scotland Yard investigation began looking into the possibility that Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper attempted to bribe and otherwise corrupt public officials in order to obtain information for exposés, personnel at the newspaper have begun to fight back. Referring to the arrest of five top journalists at the paper — Britain’s largest — over [...]

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. [...]

HACKING SCANDAL SPREADS TO LONDON TIMES

On his Twitter posts, Rupert Murdoch has remained oddly silent about the latest developments involving News Corp’s hacking scandal(s) in the U.K. While mentioning the latest market moves by Facebook and Google and remarking, “Things are buzzing,” Murdoch today (Friday) said nothing at all about the buzz over reports on Thursday that a crucial email exchange [...]

MURDOCH KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP OVER ARRESTS AT SUN (Updated)

Rupert Murdoch has still made no mention in his almost daily tweets about the surprise early-morning arrests on Saturday of four journalists, including two senior editors, working for his London daily, The Sun — and today’s (Tuesday) Guardian newspaper suspects it knows why he has remained silent: Neither Murdoch and his son James, nor News [...]

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 [...]

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