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London mayor invites Murdoch to Olympic games
London Mayor Boris Johnson said Wednesday he had invited Rupert Murdoch to watch the Olympic Games, despite the controversy that the media baron faces over Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. News Corporation boss Murdoch, 81, has been at the centre of a political storm in Britain over the past year following the…
Another Murdoch journalist arrested in phone-hacking case
British police arrested Tuesday a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun in relation to the alleged gathering of data from stolen mobile phones, police and News International said. The 37-year-old man, bailed later on Tuesday, is the third journalist from Britain’s best-selling newspaper to have been arrested recently on…
UK police arrest Sun journalist in ‘stolen cellphone plot’
LONDON — British police arrested Tuesday a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun in relation to the alleged gathering of data from stolen mobile phones, police and News International said. The 37-year-old man, bailed later on Tuesday, is the third journalist from Britain’s best-selling newspaper to have been arrested…
Murdoch digital paper The Daily slashes staff
NEW YORK — News Corp’s digital newspaper The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to reinvent daily news for the tablet age, will sack 29 percent of its staff and overhaul its format, the firm said Tuesday. In all, 50 employees will leave the paper, which was launched 18 months ago. The…
British PM’s ex-aide charged with hacking, Angelina Jolie targeted
Police have charged Prime Minister David Cameron’s ex-media chief Andy Coulson with phone hacking as a long-running press scandal lapped at the door of Downing Street. Former tabloid editor Rebekah Brooks will also be charged at a later date, police confirmed. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said eight current or…
Former Murdoch newspaper execs charged in phone-hacking case
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged David Cameron’s former spokesman Andy Coulson and ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks with phone-hacking. The Crown Prosecution Service said it was charging a total of eight people in relation to the scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid, while it was taking…
News Corp shakes up Fox leadership
NEW YORK — News Corporation on Monday named Peter Rice as head of its Fox Networks Group as the media giant headed by Rupert Murdoch reorganized its leadership ahead of a likely split of the company. Rice, who has been head of entertainment for the unit since 2010, will now…
News Corp. unveils educational tablet
News Corp. said Monday it would launch a new tablet computer with AT&T aimed at the education market to bring “digital innovation” to the classroom. The media conglomerate headed by Rupert Murdoch said the effort would come from its education division which is being renamed Amplify. “Amplify is dedicated to…
Rupert Murdoch resigns from newspaper boards
The (U.K.) Telegraph is reporting that media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from the boards of his various newspaper holdings in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Filings with both the United Kingdom Registrar of Companies and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the resignations were made…
Murdoch journalist held in computer hacking probe
British police on Thursday arrested a journalist from Rupert Murdoch’s market-leading tabloid The Sun on suspicion of computer hacking, its publisher said. Police said one man was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in north London as part of Operation Tuleta, an investigation into computer hacking linked to…
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