The Morning Lowdown 09-20-11
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News International Offers Dowler Family Settlement Of Over £2 Million
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Milly Dowler’s family has been offered a multimillion-pound settlement by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, in an attempt to settle the p… Read more »
Sorrell Backs Launch Of A Sun On Sunday
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Sir Martin Sorrell has thrown his support behind the launch of a Sun on Sunday to bolster the weekend newspaper market. Read more »
News International Is Launching Mobile Sports and Entertainment Service
A new online and mobile service dedicated to sport and showbiz is to be launched in the wake of the closure of the News of the World by Rupe… Read more »
More Problems For James Murdoch: New Details Emerge In NOTW Letters
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Lawyers for Gordon Taylor said he wanted to be “vindicated or made rich” in negotiations over his controversial £700,000 ($1,121,341.40) ph… Read more »
Updated: James Murdoch Sticks To His Guns, Repudiates Execs’ Testimony
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James Murdoch is now in public disagreement with two of his former top dogs, who each told parliament that he was aware that phone hacking w… Read more »
News International To Sell Wapping HQ
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News International, publisher of the Sun and the Times, is to sell Wapping, the headquarters of its UK operations for 25 years.
The move wa… Read more »
NY Official Cites Hacking In Rejection Of News Corp. Education Contract
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Losing a $27 million contract won’t hit the News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) bottom line but the New York state comptroller’s rejection of a contract… Read more »
Letters Show Rivals Lobbying UK Government Against BSkyB Acquisition
The government has published a tranche of documents relating to the deal that never was – News Corporation’s aborted £8bn bid to take ful… Read more »
Rival Papers May Not Take NOTW’s Advertising Until October
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Sunday tabloid publishers that have added almost 2m extra copy sales following the News of the World’s demise may have to wait until October… Read more »
Phone Hacking: Met Police Detective Arrested For Leaking Inquiry Details
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A police detective has been arrested on suspicion of leaking details about Scotland Yard’s phone-hacking investigation. The man has not been… Read more »
Phone Hacking: News Of The World’s Hollywood Reporter Arrested
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James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone… Read more »
Hacking: James Murdoch Replies To Parliament; Yes, No, Maybe
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It looks increasingly likely that James Murdoch will make a return trip to Westminster to testify before the House of Commons Select Committ… Read more »
Man Who Threw Pie At Murdoch Is Now Blogging From Prison
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When Jonathan May-Bowles – a.k.a. activist-comedian Jonnie Marbles – tipped a foam-pie over Rupert Murdoch, oh how we scorned him. “He’s… Read more »
Red Herring Of The Day: Social Media Are Like A Train Station
The starring role of social media services like Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger in the recent riots in England has been much-debated: today… Read more »
What The Media Was Tweeting During News Corp’s Earnings Call
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Some in the media expected the first News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) earnings call after July’s explosive hacking scandal — and the closure of “News… Read more »
News Corp Claims No Hacking Financial Impact, Seeks BSkyB Alternatives
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News Corp will pursue alternative acquisitions to BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), buy back more shares and raise investors’ dividends – but will apparent… Read more »
Hackgate: Ex-NOTW Managing Editor Arrested
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Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been has been arrested by poli… Read more »
Sun Website Users’ Personal Details Hacked
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News International has emailed thousands of people to warn them that one or more hackers have copied personal details of thousands of people… Read more »
News International Ordered Mass Deletion Of E-Mails Nine Times
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Senior MPs want to question further one of News International’s technology suppliers, after the firm responsible for overseeing its day-to-d… Read more »
Hackgate Latest: Post-Murdoch Planning, Sarah Payne And More…
The latest developments in News International’s voicemail tapping saga and the fall-out for News Corp… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The Morning Lowdown 07-20-11
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» James and Rupert Murdoch Have Lunch At Parliament: A Grilling And Some Pie (paidContent)
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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 »
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 »
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 »
