Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is "not a fit person" to run a major international company, British lawmakers investigating phone hacking at his tabloid News of the World reported Tuesday.
Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch spent hours Wednesday downplaying his political influence, even as British Prime Minister David Cameron said politicians in his country had been too close to Murdoch over the years.
British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt rejected suggestions Wednesday he had acted improperly in his dealings with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch testified about press ethics in light of the phone hacking scandal in Britain.
The e-mails from Frédéric Michel, News Corp's chief lobbyist in Europe, to James Murdoch, a key figure in the News Corp empire, about the company's bid in 2011 to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB are staggering.
The Cabinet minister who oversees British broadcasting came under fire Tuesday after the inquiry into the News Corp. hacking scandal revealed extensive contacts with the company while he weighed a controversial merger.
James Murdoch insisted Tuesday that he knew little about the scale of phone hacking by people working for the News of the World, as he continued his fight to limit the damage the scandal does to him and his family's media empire.
CNN's Richard Quest talks to Andrew Neil, Fmr. Exec. Chairman of Sky Television, about James Murdoch's resignation.
One year ago James Murdoch was widely regarded as heir-apparent to his father Rupert's global News Corp. media empire -- a remarkable turnaround for a college dropout once viewed as the family's black sheep.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch will appear next week before the independent British inquiry into journalistic ethics prompted by phone hacking at his defunct News of the World tabloid, the investigators said Thursday.
UK news channel Sky News said Thursday it had authorized its journalists to hack illegally into the e-mail of individual members of the public on two occasions.
James Murdoch, the son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, stepped down as the chairman of BSkyB on Tuesday, the British satellite broadcaster announced.
A 51-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of intimidation of a witness in connection with an investigation into alleged phone hacking, London's Metropolitan Police said.
CNN's Becky Anderson explains what led to the closure of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspaper News of the World.
Brian Stelter with the New York Times on James Murdoch stepping down as head of a News Corp. U.K. subsidiary.
Rupert Murdoch is facing a fresh challenge to his UK media business as it emerged that Britain's communications regulator has escalated its probe into whether British Sky Broadcasting is a "fit and proper" owner of a broadcasting licence.
Prue Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert by his first marriage, once told me that her abiding memory of her father over the breakfast table was not of his beaming face, but of the back page of a newspaper. One doubts if James Murdoch even remembers that.
James Murdoch is giving up leadership of News Corp.'s scandal-plagued U.K. newspaper publishing business.
News Corp has moved to distance James Murdoch from its troubled newspaper brands in the UK announcing that he would step down as executive chairman of News International.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch will meet journalists at his News International subsidiary in London Friday, to take charge of the crisis surrounding the embattled Sun newspaper, with some speculating whether he will "sacrifice" UK staff to prevent the controversy from spilling across the Atlantic.
CNN's Richard Quest explains the latest scandal to plague the News Corp. empire and the Murdoch family.
The publisher of Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World tabloid paid out hundreds of thousands of pounds Wednesday to settle lawsuits over phone hacking from celebrities and politicians, including a former Tony Blair spokesman.
Piers Morgan, the former British newspaper editor who now hosts a CNN show, tenaciously defended himself Tuesday from accusations that he knew more about phone hacking than he has admitted in the past.
The former top lawyer for the defunct News of the World tabloid is "pretty sure" proprietor James Murdoch knew about damning evidence of phone hacking known as the "for Neville" e-mail, he testified before a British inquiry Wednesday.
Correspondence released Tuesday shows that James Murdoch was warned in writing of the seriousness of a threat to sue his News of the World newspaper over phone hacking in 2008.
James Murdoch was re-elected as BSkyB chairman but also lost key support, as Nina Dos Santos reports.
Shareholders for broadcaster BSkyB re-elected James Murdoch as chairman despite nearly a fifth being opposed to him continuing in the role, according to a provisional vote count Tuesday.
James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of a pair of companies that publish News Corp's UK newspaper titles.
News International chief James Murdoch rejected allegations his company behaved like a mafia organization.
The board of directors for broadcaster BSkyB has declared its unanimous support to chairman James Murdoch, in a letter sent to investors ahead of the company's annual meeting.
James Murdoch will come under further pressure from MPs over what he knew about phone hacking at the News of the World, following the release on Tuesday of documents citing the tabloid's own lawyers.
A large percentage of News Corp. shareholders, upset by the hacking scandal in Britain, opposed the re-election of Rupert Murdoch's sons to the company's board of directors.
The publisher of the former News of the World newspaper is negotiating a settlement that would pay 2 million pounds (U.S. $3.1 million) to the family of a murdered U.K. teenager after journalists at the paper hacked into the girl's voice mail when she went missing, a company source told CNN on Monday.
Hugh Grant and J.K. Rowling are among dozens of celebrities given permission to participate in a top-level inquiry into phone hacking by British journalists, the judge leading the investigation said Wednesday.
News International chief executive James Murdoch is to be recalled to testify before a parliamentary committee over a phone-hacking scandal involving journalists at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, a spokesman for the panel said Tuesday.
News International chief executive James Murdoch is to be recalled to testify before a parliamentary committee over a phone-hacking scandal involving journalists at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, a spokesman for the panel said Tuesday.
News Corp. executive James Murdoch must have known that illegal phone hacking at the News of the World newspaper was not confined to the single journalist who was imprisoned for it, a former lawyer for the newspaper testified Tuesday.
CNN's Dan Rivers explains the phone hacking saga in Britain.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch were both given substantial raises from News Corp. in its recently completed fiscal year -- although James Murdoch declined much of his raise, citing the recent scandals that buffeted the company.
Parliament released new documents Tuesday that cast doubt on the veracity of testimony given to lawmakers last month by James Murdoch, the son and heir apparent to Rupert Murdoch's media empire, about News International's role in the phone hacking scandal.
Phone hacking was "widely discussed" at News of the World, the royal correspondent jailed and sacked for the practice wrote in 2007, according to documents released Tuesday by a Parliament committee investigating the scandal.
CNN's Dan Rivers and Jim Clancy discuss the implications of accusations made by a former News of the World reporter.
Damaging allegations over phone hacking are continuing to mount against Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
A British lawmaker has apologized to CNN host and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan for wrongly stating that he "had been open about personally hacking phones" in his memoir.
News Corp. has ordered New York Post employees to "preserve and maintain" documents related to possible phone hacking or bribery of public officials, according to two documents circulated Friday to the newspaper's staff.
James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, who had testified before a British parliamentary committee regarding the UK phone hacking scandal, have been asked to clarify some of their testimony, a lawmaker said Friday.
Last week, when Wendi Deng Murdoch stole the show at the parliamentary tabloid hearings with a sock to the face of her husband's pie-wielding aggressor, it seemed like the demure woman who calls Rupert Murdoch her "hubby" had suddenly turned fierce. In fact, Deng's impromptu reaction may have revealed more about her true self than she'd like to let on.
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that James Murdoch has "questions to answer in Parliament," a day after former top executives of News of the World accused the News Corp. executive of giving "mistaken" evidence.
Two former executives say James Murdoch gave "mistaken" evidence when testifying about the phone hacking scandal.
This week's performance by Rupert and James Murdoch at a British parliamentary hearing raises some questions that News Corp. will struggle to answer, regardless of the outcome of the phone-hacking scandal.
Seated side by side, News Corp. magnate Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, told British lawmakers Tuesday they were not to blame in a burgeoning scandal that has raised questions of how much top executives knew about illegal phone hacking and when.
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says he wasn't aware of wrongdoings at his company.
A plate of shaving cream is tossed at Murdoch as he faced questions about his newspaper's scandal
News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks went before lawmakers Tuesday to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal that has gripped the UK and beyond.
James and Rupert Murdoch apologize at a hearing on alleged phone-hacking and say Parliament was misled.
James Murdoch answers questions about 9/11 victims and members of the British royal family's phones being hacked.
The following are highlights from the testimony given Tuesday by media baron Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, before a Parliament committee investigating phone hacking by journalists working for the Murdoch media empire:
News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks are set to appear in parliament on Tuesday to answer questions about the phone hacking scandal that has convulsed Britain.
As Rebekah Brooks is arrested, our panel debates the worldwide fallout of the phone hacking scandal.
Rupert and James Murdoch will attend the UK parliamentary hearing on phone hacking scandal. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son James will attend a hearing over the phone-hacking scandal before British lawmakers next Tuesday, their company, News International, told CNN Thursday.
A former London Met police officer is not surprised to hear allegations that "News of the World" paid officers.
The phone-tapping allegations that forced the closure of embattled British tabloid News of the World may have a damaging ripple effect across Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire, according to some analysts.
CNN's Richard Quest takes a look at the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch.
News of the World was famous for its clever headlines, but suddenly the tables were turned.
News of the World political editor David Wooding talks about how he learned that the paper was going to be shut down.
The embattled British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, will shut down after Sunday's issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday.
News of the World, the most widely-read English language newspaper in the world, is shutting down because of allegations that it hacked into phone accounts, according to News Corp. leadership.
The murmured question that built to a crescendo over Oscar week was not how many gold statues "Slumdog Millionaire" was going to nab but whether Peter Chernin would stay or leave News Corp.
Wall Street opens higher after stronger than expected November jobs report.
Two of Rupert Murdoch's senior hands in the viciously competitive British newspaper business will assume the top posts at Dow Jones and Company.
Stocks pointed to a higher open Friday after a key reading on the labor market came in better than expected, easing concerns that the economy is headed for a recession.
Rupert Murdoch is stepping down from his role as chairman of the British broadcaster BSkyB to make way for his son James, long seen as the tycoon's favored successor to take over his media empire.
Readers of the The Sun, a British tabloid best known for its bare-breasted Page Three girls, opened their newspapers to see a young woman named Keeley Hazell wearing only green paint. Ms. Hazell is the face - well, not just the face - of the paper's campaign against global warming.
Why does he want the Wall Street Journal and what will he do if hegets it? Eric Pooley got the answers from Murdoch himself
Control of struggling British television company ITV has become the unlikely focus for a battle between two of the titans of the business world.
The adult children of media mogul Rupert Murdoch are reportedly in discussions to give their young half-siblings a share of the wealth from a family trust, but none of the control of the media conglomerate News Corp. that the trust now holds.
Fortune: MURDOCH'S AIR WARupdated: Mon Dec 13 2004 00:01:00
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