New York: News Corp awarded Rupert Murdoch and his son James big compensation increases, though James declined his bonus, citing controversy over a phone hacking scandal at the UK newspaper unit that he oversees. The annual bonus, announced on Friday, would have bumped James Murdoch's compensation by 73 percent. His father got a 47 percent increase, bringing his compensation to $33.3 million. The awards came on the same day that...
07:04 AM, Sep 03, 2011
London: British police have arrested a 30-year-old man in the phone hacking scandal involving the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. Police say the man was arrested by appointment on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. More than a dozen people have been arrested amid claims the newspaper eavesdropped on the mobile phone voicemail messages of celebrities, royals, politicians and crime victims. The scandal forced the closure...
01:33 AM, Sep 03, 2011
London: New evidence of hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World points to a four-year cover-up by the company, and intensifies focus on Prime Minister David Cameron's judgement in hiring an ex-editor who may now face criminal prosecution. A letter written in 2007 by ex-royal reporter Clive Goodman says former editor Andy Coulson, who went on to become Cameron's spokesman, banned talk in editorial meetings of phone-hacking but not...
01:28 AM, Aug 18, 2011
London: The circulation of British tabloids has shot up after media baron Rupert Murdoch closed down News of the World in July until then Britain's largest selling Sunday paper in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, latest industry figures show. The Sunday Mirror picked up the most new customers with average sales for July of 1,786,454 copies, almost 700,000 more than in June. Daily Star Sunday was the big winner...
06:22 PM, Aug 13, 2011
New York: News Corp shareholders angry over the hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate face an uphill fight trying to hold company executives and directors responsible in court. In the nearly six weeks since the scandal erupted, shareholders have seen roughly $ 5 billion of market value disappear - a sum that had been more than twice as large prior to News Corp's report on Wednesday of solid second-quarter...
01:53 PM, Aug 13, 2011
London: Greg Miskiw, former news editor of the now defunct News of the World, was arrested on Wednesday by the Scotland Yard team investigating phone-hacking at newspaper titles owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. Miskiw, 61, was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, Scotland Yard said. He was arrested after visiting a police station by appointment by officers working on Operation Weeting. Miskiw was arrested on suspicion of unlawful interception...
07:59 PM, Aug 10, 2011
London: It was one of many strange moments in a hearing rich in absurdity. As British lawmakers questioned Rupert Murdoch last month over whether his News of the World journalists broke the law by hacking into mobile phones, the 80-year-old Australian-born boss of media giant News Corporation began to reminiscence about his late father. "I just want to say that I was brought up by a father who was not...
09:27 AM, Aug 10, 2011
Los Angeles: Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, has delayed taking her seat on the News Corp board, a sign the company is trying to duck criticism that the publicly traded company is run like a family dynasty. Such criticism reached new heights after a phone-hacking scandal in Britain brought the role of top management into question. The scandal has put in doubt the corporate future...
02:07 PM, Aug 06, 2011
London: Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years, was arrested and later freed on bail on Tuesday over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid that has rattled Britain's establishment, a source close to the case said. Police said a 71-year-old man had been released on bail to an unspecified date later this month after being arrested on suspicion of corruption and conspiring to...
03:02 AM, Aug 03, 2011
London: British lawmakers on Friday demanded that James Murdoch clarify why testimony he gave to a parliamentary committee probing the phone hacking scandal conflicted with a statement from two former executives. Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer of media giant News Corp., and his father, tycoon Rupert Murdoch, testified about the widening allegations of phone tapping and bribery at the Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid. The demand from legislators came...
03:04 AM, Jul 30, 2011
London: James Murdoch was unanimously confirmed as chairman by BSkyB's board, winning a reprieve from a phone-hacking scandal that threatens to draw him into multiple investigations, two sources briefed on the board meeting told Reuters. Thursday's meeting of the BSkyB board was its first since the crisis forced News Corp to close the 'News of the World' newspaper, drop a $12 billion bid for BSkyB and offer up James and...
07:29 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Washington: Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet on August 24 with family members of some of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks regarding the FBI inquiry into allegations surrounding Rupert Murdoch's media empire, a lawyer said on Wednesday. According to a London tabloid's story based on unidentified sources, a former New York police officer-turned-private investigator said he had been contacted by journalists from Murdoch's News of...
03:45 AM, Jul 28, 2011
London: The board of British Sky Broadcasting meets on Thursday, facing a possible decision about the position of its chairman, James Murdoch, after he became embroiled in the phone hacking scandal. It's the first board meeting since Rupert Murdoch's News Corp abandoned a takeover bid for BSkyB because of the scandal at the British tabloid News of the World. The British papers fall within James Murdoch's responsibilities as CEO of...
02:20 AM, Jul 28, 2011
London: Ministers in Britain's coalition government, criticised for being too close to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp, face more scrutiny this week when details of their meetings with the company's executives are published. News Corp executive James Murdoch is also under pressure over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media empire and could jeopardise his own position at the company. British police are considering...
01:32 AM, Jul 26, 2011
London: A leading investor in BSkyB said he backs James Murdoch staying as chairman of the pay-TV firm despite politicians questioning his suitability, the Telegraph newspaper web site reported on Saturday. Crispin Odey, head of hedge fund Odey Asset Management, which holds around 2.7 per cent of BSkyB's shares, told the Sunday Telegraph in an interview that he admired the 38-year-old son of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch as a...
06:29 PM, Jul 24, 2011
London: Britain's phone-hacking scandal appeared to be spreading to newspaper titles beyond those owned by Rupert Murdoch, with fresh claims dragging the Mirror group into the mire of allegations of eavesdropping on celebrities. In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the Mirror group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was "endemic". So far, the allegations had clouded newspapers of the News...
09:16 PM, Jul 23, 2011
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11:37 PM, Jul 22, 2011
London: Prime Minister David Cameron came under renewed pressure to detail his relations with scandal-hit News Corp on Thursday and the spotlight fell on other newspaper groups when an official said police were reviewing their reporting methods. Facing the worst crisis of his premiership, Cameron appeared to have shored up his authority among Conservative supporters and his Liberal Democrat coalition partners with a confident performance in an emergency parliamentary debate...
12:57 AM, Jul 22, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers are set to lose exclusive access to British athletes ahead of the 2012 London Olympics after the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World. Team 2012, an initiative supporting British Olympians, had signed up News International as its official partner to help raise funds for athletes. But the British branch of Murdoch's media empire can no longer meet...
09:24 PM, Jul 21, 2011
London: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was among individuals whose personal data was clandestinely obtained by private investigators at the behest of a newspaper owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch. Nick Davies, a journalist writing for The Guardian who has doggedly exposed the dubious news-gathering practices in the British press, mentions that Zardari's credit-card statement was obtained by a private investigator for The Sunday Times. Davies, an award-winning journalist whose...
04:54 PM, Jul 21, 2011
