Grilled by the British Parliament, the world's most powerful Media mugol Rupert Murdoch apologised for phone hacking by his journalists, but refuses to take overall responsibility for the fiasco. ...
09:10 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Media titan Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday denied that the closure of the News of the World tabloid was motivated by financial considerations. He said he shut down the News of the World because of criminal allegations. There has been speculation that Murdoch wanted to close the Sunday newspaper in order to merge its operations with the six-days-a-week Sun, which some have said will relaunch as a seven-day publication. Asked...
07:55 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch told the British parliament on Tuesday that giving evidence on the phone-hacking and corruption scandal that is engulfing his global media empire was "the most humble day of my life". Sitting next to his son James, who opened the much-awaited proceedings in a packed committee room at Westminster by apologizing to victims of voicemail hacking, the 80-year-old chief executive of News Corp interjected: "I would just like...
07:17 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: British lawmakers on Tuesday quizzed key figures in the country's phone-hacking scandal, seeking to uncover the extent of criminality at media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid. Paul Stephenson, the outgoing chief of the Metropolitan Police who was grilled by a House of Commons panel, defended himself and denied taking a swipe at UK Prime Minister David Cameron in his resignation speech. He was quizzed a...
06:05 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's car was mobbed by photographers on Tuesday as he arrived for a grilling from UK lawmakers about the phone hacking scandal that has swept from his media empire through the London police and even to the prime minister's office. Murdoch, his son James and the media mogul's former UK newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks were all to be questioned at the hotly anticipated hearing. But the elder Murdoch's...
05:29 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Former News Of The World journalist and whistleblower of the 9/11 phone-hacking scandal Sean Hoare was found dead at his home in Watford, 40 kms away from London. The police on Monday evening said that Hoare's death was being treated as unexplained. So far the police have not termed it suspicious. In an interview to the New York Times in 2010, Hoare had first alleged that illegal practices like...
09:16 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: The phone-hacking controversy took a new turn on Monday with the death of a former 'News of the World' journalist, Sean Hoare, who first alleged that illegal practices were being adopted at the tabloid under the editorship of Andy Coulson. Coulson, who was arrested two weeks ago, resigned as editor of the tabloid due to the phone-hacking allegations, but was later hired by David Cameron as his communications director...
07:29 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death. The hackers redirected visitors to the Twitter feed of hacker group Lulz Security, which came to prominence after several cyber assaults on the websites of Sony Corp, the CIA, and News Corp's Fox TV. "We have owned Sun/News of the World," LulzSec...
07:22 AM, Jul 19, 2011
New York: Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks have asked to meet the FBI and the US Justice Department to discuss the agencies' preliminary inquiry into reports that News Corp reporters may have tried to hack the phones of 9/11 victims. US authorities have acknowledged they are looking into a report by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper that reporters with the rival News of the World offered to pay...
03:31 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal enveloped the London police force on Monday with the rapid-fire resignations of two top officers and claims of possible illegal eavesdropping, bribery and collusion. UK officials immediately vowed to investigate. Prime Minister David Cameron, feeling the political heat from his own close ties to individuals within Rupert Murdoch's media empire, cut short his trip to Africa and called an emergency session of Parliament for Wednesday...
12:55 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: The London police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has resigned amid the firestorm surrounding the phone hacking scandal. Yates made a decision two years ago to not re-open police inquiries into phone hacking, saying he did not believe there was any new evidence to consider. He has said in recent weeks that he regrets that decision. He announced his decision on Monday. British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called...
07:08 PM, Jul 18, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron is cutting short his ongoing visit to Africa and to join other ministers and parliamentarians in debating the phone-hacking issue in a special session of House of Commons on Wednesday. Cameron said during a press conference in Africa on Monday that he will make a statement in the House of Commons in the light of the hearings of two select committees on Tuesday. The...
04:20 PM, Jul 18, 2011
London: Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm News International, was released on bail early on Monday after being questioned over the phone-hacking scandal, the Metropolitan police said in a statement on Monday. "At approximately midnight, the woman was bailed to return to a London police station on a date in late October," the police said in the statement. British police earlier had arrested the 43-year-old...
08:59 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: The British police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm News International, Sky News reported on Sunday. The police confirmed they had arrested a 43-year-old woman over phone hacking allegations, but did not give a name. She is being questioned on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and suspicion of corruption. They would not confirm a Sky News report that the...
06:13 PM, Jul 17, 2011
London: "We are sorry" the full-page ad began Saturday, as Rupert Murdoch tried to halt a phone-hacking scandal that has claimed two of his top executives with a gesture of atonement and promises to right the wrongs committed by his now-shuttered tabloid, News of the World. Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led government and the London police, meanwhile, faced increasing questions over their close relationship with Murdoch's media empire. Cameron was...
12:06 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Media baron Rupert Murdoch is weaving together a dream team in an attempt contain the hacking scandal ...
11:53 AM, Jul 16, 2011
New York: The resignations of two of Rupert Murdoch's top lieutenants are not expected to solve the corporate governance problems at his beleaguered media empire, which is widely criticized for having an over-cozy board. Les Hinton, head of News Corp's Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw Murdoch's British newspaper arm, News International. Earlier on...
10:46 AM, Jul 16, 2011
Media baron Rupert Murdoch was confronted by an angry mob shouting slogans in London on Friday after he had gone to apologise to the family of a 13 yr old murder victim whose voicemails were hacked into by his tabloid. ...
09:19 AM, Jul 16, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl. The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corporation, scuttled his ambitions to take control of a lucrative satellite TV company,...
07:10 AM, Jul 16, 2011
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11:53 PM, Jul 15, 2011
