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Another day, another drama in UK politics as media outlets struggle to keep up with the ever-shifting landscape. Theresa May is now set to assume leadership of her party, and the country, after fellow Tory politico Andrea Leadsom’s unexpected decision to quit the Conservative Party’s contest. May is now poised to…

James Harding resigned as editor of Rupert Murdoch's The Times neswspaper in December saying, "It has been made clear to me that News Corporation would like to appoint a new editor of The Times.” Reports suggested that Harding's departure was the result of upset at The Times' parent company over the paper's somewhat…

Former Rupert Murdoch lieutenant Rebekah Brooks and former News Of The World editor Andy Coulson appeared in a London court today on charges of allegedly conspiring to bribe public officials. While both of their cases were adjourned to another date, according to BBC News, four others pleaded guilty to selling…

Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon in the UK’s Sunday Times depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu using blood to build a wall that includes the bodies of Palestinians. The image, published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, infuriated the Anti-Defamation League, which charged that the “blatantly anti-Semitic…

James Harding has run the flagship Times newspaper since 2007. In his resignation speech, Harding said, "It has been made clear to me that News Corporation would like to appoint a new editor of The Times. I have, therefore, agreed to stand down. I called Rupert this morning to offer my resignation and he accepted it."…

Richard Horton, a detective who formerly penned an anonymous police blog, filed suit on April 11 in London against Times Newspapers Ltd, a unit of News Corp’s News International, Bloomberg reports. Horton was exposed by The Times as the author of the blog back in 2009. At the time, he sued to block publication of his…

In May 2009, a reporter working for the News Corp-controlled UK newspaper, The Times, hacked into the email of an anonymous police blogger. Today, The Times' editor, James Harding, apologized to the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics saying, “I sorely regret the intrusion into Richard Horton’s email account by a…

So now no member of the Murdoch family sits on the boards of News Corp’s marquee British newspapers. The London Evening Standard is reporting from regulatory filings that James Murdoch in September “dramatically resigned” in a “surprise move” as a director of the various News Corp companies that publish The Times, The…