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News Corp. to close iPad newspaper The Daily
Rupert Murdoch’s online subscription venture was losing $30m a year and failed to win enough subscribers. Rupert Murdoch is to shut iPad newspaper The Daily from 15 December, admitting that it has failed to win enough subscribers to make the online subscription venture viable in its 21 months of life.…
James Murdoch set to run News Corp’s U.S. Fox TV business
James Murdoch is reportedly being lined up to run News Corporation’s Fox TV business in the US despite being sharply criticised by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom on Thursday. The role being discussed would put him in charge of the Fox Networks Group, which includes the Fox terrestrial TV network as…
James Murdoch to oversee Fox Networks Group: report
LONDON — News Corp is planning to give James Murdoch responsibility for its US television businesses, the Fox Networks Group, the Financial Times reported in its Friday edition. Murdoch, who is already deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, will oversee the group which includes the national Fox network and…
James Murdoch faces UK press inquiry grilling
Former News International executive chairman James Murdochbegan giving testimony under oath Tuesday at the British inquiry into press standards set up after the tabloid phone-hacking row. In the day-long session at the Leveson Inquiry, Murdoch was being quizzed about his stewardship of News International, which published the now-defunct News of the World. The tabloid was…
James Murdoch received key hacking email in 2008
LONDON — News International chairman James Murdoch was sent key emails in 2008 showing that phone-hacking was rife at the News of the World tabloid, according to details released by members of the parliament Tuesday. But Murdoch said in a letter to a parliamentary committee that he had not read…
James Murdoch resigns from head position at major British newspapers
In a surprise move, the son of News Corporation mogul Rupert Murdoch has quit his position as the company director of several major British papers. According to an exclusive from The London Evening Standard, James Murdoch resigned from the boards of both The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers Limited and…
James Murdoch “kept in dark” on hacking: report
LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp’s James Murdoch was “kept in the dark” about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World by his subordinates who tried to manage the problem, the newspaper’s former chief reporter said on Monday. Neville Thurlbeck has become a key figure in the scandal because he appears to…
James Murdoch turns on other execs in hacking probe
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – James Murdoch blamed other senior News Corp executives on Thursday for not telling him more about potential evidence of widespread phone-hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid that he oversaw. In a second questioning by British parliamentarians, Murdoch, who is fighting to keep…
News of the World spied on huge scale: report
LONDON — News of the World engaged in covert surveillance on a huge scale, targeting figures including Prince William and ex-footballer Gary Lineker, a report said Thursday. Private investigator Derek Webb told the BBC that he was hired by the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid and paid to follow more than 90…
Phone-hacking scandal disrupts Murdoch succession
NEW YORK — The phone-hacking scandal brought simmering tensions in the Murdoch clan to the fore and disrupted a succession plan to News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch, according to an article in the upcoming edition of Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair, in the December issue of the magazine, also reported…
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