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UK Phone-Hacking Could Haunt Murdochs For Three More Years
Rupert Murdoch could be 84 years old before the British police complete multiple investigations into The News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, who's in charge of three overlapping probes into alleged criminal…
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Police Chief Updates UK Inquiry On Hacking & Bribery Probes; New Names Involved
Eight months of testimony are finally winding down at the Leveson Inquiry into UK media ethics. The panel, convened in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at the News Corp-controlled News Of The World, heard again today from Metropolitan police deputy commissioner Sue Akers. Akers has been leading the probes into…
News Corp Scandal One Year Later: Where Does The Publishing Arm Go From Here?
This time last year, Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire was thrust into the biggest newspaper scandal in recent memory when police alleged journalists at the News Of The World had hacked into the voice mails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. A year ago today, on July 7th, 2011, Rupert’s son James Murdoch announced…
UK Committee's Phone-Hacking Report Chooses Words Carefully: Analysis
Although speculation as to its contents was in many ways on the mark, the UK government's select committee report into phone hacking had a few surprises up its sleeve today. Neither Rupert Murdoch nor James Murdoch has been accused of misleading Parliament, but the findings are critical of both. Especially incendiary…
Phone-Hacking Scandal: Reporters Said Not Responsible For Deleting Messages That Gave Girl's Parents False Hope
New information emerged over the weekend in the News Of The World phone hacking scandal. Police are said to have concluded that reporters from the shuttered paper were not responsible for deleting certain messages on the answering machine of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The Guardian reports that News Of The World…
Chase Carey Says News Corp Will “Do What's Necessary” To Grow Hulu: UBS Confab
You wouldn’t know that the Hulu auction was a failure based on the way News Corp COO Chase Carey describes the owners’ plans. They decided to hang on to the digital video service because its value to them “dwarfed some of the values that were being put on it” by bidders including Dish Network and Google. Keeping Hulu…
Hugh Grant: UK Officials Must Crack Down On Tabloid “Privacy Invasion Industry”
Actor Hugh Grant called on UK lawmakers to regulate news organizations that he says frequently use unethical tactics to violate the privacy of celebrities like him — and ordinary people who unwittingly find themselves in the public spotlight. There's "almost no journalism now" in Britain's tabloid press – which he…
Murdoch Apology Was “Tense” But “Sincere” – Murdered Schoolgirl's Family Tells UK Inquiry
The parents of Milly Dowler told a UK inquiry into the News Of The World hacking scandal this morning that the family admonished Rupert Murdoch to “set things right” in July when he visited to apologize for the tabloid’s actions after their daughter was missing in 2002 and later found murdered. The paper had hacked…
Hugh Grant And J.K. Rowling To Join Other Celebs Testifying About News Corp Scandal
This will be another bad week for James Murdoch and News Corp as 21 witnesses including several celebs line up to tell a government inquiry how overzealous and unethical reporters turned their lives upside down. The investigation is led by Lord Justice Leveson who Prime Minister David Cameron asked to examine both…
What Will James Murdoch Say Tomorrow?
Observers I have spoken to predict that News Corp’s James Murdoch will be better briefed than he was in July — and may admit to a small mea culpa — when he returns to Parliament tomorrow to answer questions about the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal. He’s expected to continue to defend his inaction about the…
Hacking Update: News Of the World Lawyer Warned Email Was “Fatal To Our Case” Ahead Of Crucial James Murdoch Meeting
More bad news for James Murdoch today ahead of his appearance next week before the UK Parliament's culture committee, which is investigating the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal. The committee just released a tranche of legal correspondence that includes a letter supporting James’ chief opponents, former NOTW…
James Murdoch's Succession Prospects Dim As He Prepares To Testify Again About Hacking Scandal
James Murdoch isn't going to succeed his father Rupert as CEO of News Corp — if you don’t believe that yet, then wait for November 10 when he's due to testify again before the parliamentary committee investigating the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal. Media execs and close News Corp watchers tell me that James…
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