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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Les Hinton: The News International Years As Rupert’s ‘Consigliere’
Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making goo… Read more »
How Scandal Shook The Murdoch Media Empire: An Interactive Timeline
A report by the Guardian that the News of the World had hacked into the voicemail of a 13-year-old murder victim snowballed into a major cri… Read more »
Updated: News Corp. Scandal: The Legal Fallout
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The repercussions from the phone-hacking done by News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). journalists and executives are piling up so fast it’s hard to keep t… Read more »
Hinton Leaves Dow Jones And News Corp.: The Memos
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News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and pu… Read more »
Sorry Is The Hardest Word: Murdoch Issues Apology Ad In UK Newspapers
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This is far from closure, but it is possibly a step in the right direction. News Corp.’s CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has issued an apology that wil… Read more »
The Sunday Gap: Sunday.co.uk Points To NOTW, DMGT Looking To Muscle In?
They say that nature abhors a vacuum. And so it should come as no surprise that with last week’s demise of the top-selling, scandal-ridden S… Read more »
Tom Mockridge: Profile Of News International’s New Chief Executive
Tom Mockridge started his career as a national newspaper journalist working for the chief rival to Rupert Murdoch’s interests in Australia. Read more »
Brooks Resignation: The Full Staff Memo
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Below is the full text of the email that Rebekah Brooks sent to staff at News Corp.’s News International this morning. Our full story here. Read more »
Updated: Brooks Resigns As CEO Of News International Amid Hacking Scandal
The hacking scandal that has been engulfing News Corp.’s UK newspaper publisher News International — and is increasingly threatening to spr… Read more »
Shareholder Prince Al-Waleed: ‘Almost Impossible’ For Murdochs To Know’
The BBC is usually regarded as an even-handed observer of the world’s events. But one of its more opinion-led programs, Newsnight, last nigh… Read more »
News Corp. Calls In PR Firm Edelman For Help With NoTW Scandal
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has called in PR and lobbying specialists Edelman to help the embattled company handle mountin… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch Tells WSJ Sales Reports ‘Pure Rubbish’; Defends James
Less than a week before he testifies before a committee of Parliament, Rupert Murdoch tested his speaking skills on the growing scandal affe… Read more »
Twitter Becomes A Firing Range For Fired NoTW ‘Journos’
These last weeks in UK politics and media could have come out of a Robert Harris novel. And a couple of the more colorful characters have be… Read more »
News Corp. Faces Increased Scrutiny In U.S.; First Congress, Now FBI
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Until now, Rupert Murdoch has been able to keep his various News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). enterprises in different countries from rubbing off on ea… Read more »
James Murdoch To Stay On As BSkyB Chair After News Corp Abandons Bid
News Corp today walked away from its bid to buy out all shares in UK broadcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), but one of its most senior executives wi… Read more »
Who Would Take News International’s Papers Off Murdoch’s Hands?
So, thank you and goodbye, News International? Goodbye Times, Sunday Times and Sun as well as the News of the World? Goodbye, for that matte… Read more »
The Sun Denies Brown Allegations As Murdochs, Brooks Brace For MP Questions
Since news broke of the scandal surrounding phone hacking at News of the World, the question has been, how it extend to other newspapers in… Read more »
Don’t Mess With Social Media And The Power Of The People: The BSkyB Rant
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You can file this one under, “When it rains, it pours.” A UK resident who wanted to stop her subscription to BSkyB’s pay-TV service got into… Read more »
Denials, Recriminations Among News International Execs Over Who Saw Emails
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A bitter internal wrangle has broken out at News International over who saw emails retrieved by the company four years ago which suggest tha… Read more »
NOTW: What Happens To The Digital Assets When The Paper Closes Down?
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A note on the transitory nature of digital content: Last week, when it was announced that the News Corp-owned Sunday tabloid News of the Wor… Read more »
Video: News Of The World Editor’s Final Speech To Staff
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This video — of News Of The World editor Colin Myler, addressing the staff of the paper for the very last time, last Saturday after the pap… Read more »
News Corp: The Latest Developments In Links
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Here’s a look at some of the key revelations and developments in the fiasco that has hit News International and the publisher’s owner News C… Read more »
News Corp. Suit, Watchdog Complaint Portend U.S. Headaches For Murdoch
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The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). phone-hacking and police payoffs scandal, which has riveted Britain for more than a week, has finally reached Ame… Read more »
The List Of Luminaries That News Of The World Allegedly Phone-Hacked
Who was targeted by the News of the World?
The revelation that murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked is the latest, and perhaps mos… Read more »
BSkyB Shares Drop As Hunt Offers Regulators A Do-Over On News Corp. Deal
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Another major setback for News Corp in the UK today: Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, is sending back the media giant’s bid for broadcast… Read more »
News Corp. Still Mum On New Sunday Paper, To Put Fabulous Mag Into The Sun
While some of those working on News of the World may have been able to slide in a few barbs against their employer in the final edition of t… Read more »
Mr. Murdoch, Please Lift This Wall
Dear Rupert Murdoch:
cc: James Murdoch
News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has good reason to try to make digital subscriptions work. I may not like all… Read more »
Updated: Odds Of News Corp. Winning BSkyB Dim In Face Of Furious Opposition
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This time last week Rupert Murdoch and nearly everyone else involved had good reason to expect that News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). was well on its w… Read more »
Another Digital Twist to the NWS Drama: A Tell-All Blog By Ex-NOTW Journos
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News International is taking down its online paywall for the last edition of The News of the World on Sunday, July 10. But the scandal-ridde… Read more »
News Corp. And BSkyB: Conspiracy Theories And Other Very Bad Things
Here’s an excerpt from BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield’s take on the potential impact of the News of the World hacking scandal on News Corp (NS… Read more »
Update: NOTW Redux? News International Registers “SunOnSunday” Domains
Update: So now the mystery has been solved. Some time late today, the ownerships of the domain names thesunonsunday.co.uk and sunonsunday.co… Read more »
News Corp-BSkyB: ‘Fit & Proper’ Role Called Into Question On E-Mail Charge
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On the surface, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) appears to remain hopeful that its intended acquisition of the 61 percent of UK TV provider BSkyB (NYS… Read more »
Murdoch At The Center Of The Story — But Not In Control
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For a man who’s spent his entire life in the media business and understands it as well as anybody who’s ever lived, Rupert Murdoch is quite… Read more »
