Hacking Aside, Has Rupert Murdoch Been A Good CEO?
The phone-hacking and police bribery scandal swirling around News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has revived long-simmering questions about Rupert… Read more »
Hackgate: Some Angry Times Readers Canned Digital Subs, Some Have Returned
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The editor of the Times, James Harding, has admitted that News International’s handling of the phone-hacking crisis was “catastrophic” and t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-27-11
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» Aegis Group is selling its market-research unit Synovate to France’s Ipsos for £525 million ($861.2 million) in a move that wi… Read more »
Key Support May Help James Murdoch Keep BSkyB Job
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James Murdoch is likely to remain chairman of satellite company BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) after winning the support of the leading independent direc… Read more »
Fox Switches To Authentication For New Shows Online; Dish, Hulu Plus Get First Crack
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Counting on keeping up with Glee next season through next-day visits to Hulu.com or Fox.com? Count again — unless you subscribe through a v… Read more »
Murdoch’s UK Papers ‘Seen As Old Man’s Hobby’
A sting in the tail of the latest New York Times (NYSE: NYT) article on Rupert Murdoch. It concludes:
“In the last few years, some employee… Read more »
U.S. Investigations Of Phone-Hacking Scandal Unlikely To Move Quickly
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As the heat continues to be on News Corp.’s activities in the U.K., an investigation of any U.S. links is proceeding-albeit very slowly. Any… Read more »
Hacking Loopholes Remain, Consumers Deserve Better
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After an “Arab spring”, it’s been a summer of security breaches. But, while the press, politicians and police chiefs turn themselves inside-… Read more »
James Murdoch Stands By Evidence He Gave Commons Committee
James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News Internatio… Read more »
WSJ’s Robert Thomson On Ethics: The Memo
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Robert Thomson, the top journalist at Dow Jones and flagship Wall Street Journal, just sent this memo about ethics to the News Corp (NSDQ: N… Read more »
Hacking Digest: Sun Editor Sacked; Miskiw Speaks; Lawyer Victims; Sunday
James Murdoch’s testimony on phone hacking is getting called into question by those who were closest to the situation at the time: that coul… Read more »
‘The Daily’ Launches A New Version; Hopes For Assist From Spotify
Another News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). tabloid is making news today and this time it has nothing to do with Parliament or police. The Daily is out w… Read more »
James Murdoch ‘Mistaken’ In Select Committee Evidence, Say Myler And Crone
James Murdoch has been accused of giving incorrect information to the parliamentary select committee hearing on phone hacking about a six-fi… Read more »
Mirror Publisher Sly Bailey Says MP Mensch Made False Hacking Claims
Since the News of the World hacking scandal broke a couple of weeks ago, several figures, like Prime Minister David Cameron, have taken pain… Read more »
Updated: LulzSec Says It Is Releasing NOTW Emails, Anonymous Backtracks
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First LulzSec took over The Sun’s homepage, then it took down the rest of News International’s sites. Now it appears that the hackers are wo… Read more »
DJ Special Committee: ‘Absolutely No Sign Of Journalistic Misconduct’
Remember that independent panel that was supposed to safeguard the integrity of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal after the acquisition… Read more »
Hacking Digest: The Latest Developments
After the Tuesday drama of key figures in the hacking scandal, including Rupert and James Murdoch, testifying before Parliamentary committee… Read more »
Video: David Carr & Stephen Colbert On Painted Harlots, Murdoch And More
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New York Times (NYSE: NYT) media writer and David Carr, appearing now in theaters via documentary Page One, hit the big time on TV Tuesday n… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-20-11
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» James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie (paidContent)
» News International ‘Deli… Read more »
Rebekah Brooks: None The Wiser On The Hacking Scandal
After the Murdochs Rupert and James had their grilling by the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Media and Sport yesterday, with their tens… Read more »
Parliament Report On News Intl: Download The Damning Conclusions Here
While the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport spent more than four hours grilling Rupert and James Murdoch, and later Rebecca Broo… Read more »
Video: Piers Morgan Calls Out MP Louise Mensch For Accusations Against Him
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We know Piers Morgan for his reality TV stints and his gig now as Larry King’s replacement on CNN. But before that he was a well-known tablo… Read more »
Testimony: News Corp Board Shocked At Evidence Of Payments To Police
“Blindingly obvious” evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald… Read more »
News Corp.’s Independent Directors Express Support — And Hire A Lawyer
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On a day when Rupert Murdoch defiantly testified that he had no intentions of resigning as CEO of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), the company’s nine… Read more »
James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie
What, you weren’t glued to the TV or Twitter for the hours of testimony given by Rupert and James Murdoch and their former News Internationa… Read more »
The Biggest Losers From The Borders Bankruptcy
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Yesterday’s news that the Borders bookstore chain is going to be sold off-much of it probably at fire-sale prices-means that some of the nat… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch Attacked At Phone-Hacking Hearing
The Murdochs’ appearance before MPs for a grilling about the phone-hacking scandal was brought to a dramatic halt after an activist attempte… Read more »
The Statement The Murdochs Wanted To Make Before The MPs Said No
Before MPs kicked off their phone hacking questions for James and Rupert Murdoch today, James asked John Whittingdale, the chair of the Comm… Read more »
Hacking: Key Questions For Rupert and James Murdoch And Rebekah Brooks
Just in case you haven’t heard, the UK’s Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has managed to corral three of the key executives tha… Read more »
Murdochs Have A Lot Riding On Tuesday’s Command Performance
If Rupert Murdoch turns in a performance in front of a Parliamentary committee Tuesday anywhere close to the one he gave in last week’s inte… Read more »
Netlog Pulls A Facebook, Signs Music Partnership With We7
The idea of social networks as a place to listen to and share music is one that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) should have owned. But its gradual decli… Read more »
Updated: Hackers Hack The Hackers: LulzSec Takes Down News International
With all the attention on News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and the hacking scandal, it was bound to happen: the homepage of The Sun newspaper, The Time… Read more »
‘NoTW’ Phone Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead
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Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacki… Read more »
Too Little, Too Late? News Corp Forms Group To Oversee Ethics
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When News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) ran an ad in multiple newspapers across the UK this weekend, it promised “further concrete steps” to right… Read more »
Brooks Protests Arrest; Second Key Scotland Yard Official Resigns
Given how fast the revelations about phone hacking at UK tabloid News of the World have spread into a full-blown crisis for all of News Corp… Read more »
Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails
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Radio is going digital all over the world – on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-18-11
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» Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment (paidContent)
» WSJ To News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). Critics: STF… Read more »
BSkyB: Murdoch’s Role As Chairman Could Be Gone By The End Of The Week
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Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman — despite the abandoned bid… Read more »
WSJ To News Corp. Critics: STFU
How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch’s hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its pub… Read more »
Ex-News Corp Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested By Appointment; Police Chief Out
If you felt a small earthquake just now, it was the tectonic plates of press and power moving in the UK. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned just F… Read more »
