RUPERT & JAMES MURDOCH TO BE GRILLED AGAIN

Rupert Murdoch and son James are due to appear next week at the Leveson inquiry into British media ethics. In July they were also questioned by a parliamentary committee looking into the still-unfolding telephone hacking scandal that resulted in the Murdochs’ decision to shut down its highly profitable London weekly, News of the World. The [...]

BOOK: NEWS CORP TRIED TO INTIMIDATE U.K. LAWMAKERS

After a parliamentary committee began investigating allegations of telephone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World in 2010, the then-editor of the paper, Colin Myler, instructed its reporters to “find out everything you can about every single member,” Labor MP Tom Watson told a news conference in London’today (Thursday). Watson, who spearheaded the investigation [...]

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 [...]

HACKING SCANDAL CONTINUES TO SPREAD AT NEWS CORP

When Rupert Murdoch tweeted — seemingly from out of the blue — “I have nothing to do with Sky News” in February, one of his “followers” asked him to explain, given the fact that Sky News’s parent is News Corp-controlled BSkyB. Murdoch never did. But he may be compelled to do some explaining if, as [...]

JAMES MURDOCH RESIGNS AS CHAIRMAN OF BSKYB

James Murdoch, the embattled son of News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch,has stepped down from his post as chairman of the British TV satellite service BSkyB, saying that he did not want the company to be “undermined by matters outside the scope of this company.” He acknowledged that his chairmanship of the company “could become a [...]

RUPERT MURDOCH TAKES OFF THE GLOVES

Amid new allegations of potentially criminal wrongdoing by units of his News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter today (Thursday), vowing to fight back. “Seems every competitor and enemy piling on with lies and libels,” he said in his first tweet, adding, “So bad, easy to hit back hard, which preparing.” His comments came following [...]

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 [...]

MURDOCH’S “PROXY” IN U.K. ARRESTED AGAIN

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 [...]

REGULATORS COULD YANK MURDOCH’S TV LICENSES

OFCOM, Britain’s official television regulator, is considering the possibility of yanking the license that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp holds to operate BSkyB as its controlling owner, the London Financial Times reported today (Friday). OFCOM is also assessing the question of whether James Murdoch should be allowed to continue to head the satellite broadcaster, according to [...]

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