Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. launches a takeover bid for Australia's Consolidated Media, as CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
The board of News Corp. has agreed to split the conglomerate into two pieces, with one company encompassing its television and film assets and the other holding its publishing entities, according to The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp.
News Corp has drawn up plans to split the media business into two parts, separating its entertainment assets from its publishing arm, the Wall Street Journal reported.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was quizzed Thursday about his links to former top Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks and his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson.
British Prime Minister David Cameron appears at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
A former British prime minister who has been a harsh critic of media baron Rupert Murdoch is due to testify Monday at an enquiry spawned by phone-hacking at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt defended his conduct in the case of a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to take over British satellite broadcaster BSkyB at a hearing Thursday.
A UK lawmakers' report takes aim at Rupert Murdoch's role in the phone hacking scandal. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Eight UK government ministers were given the right Friday to see written witness statements before the witnesses testify to an independent inquiry into phone hacking and news media ethics.
Former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been summoned to testify next week before a judge-led inquiry probing phone hacking and news media ethics.
Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch received a strong endorsement from the board of directors of his News Corp. on Wednesday, a day after British lawmakers investigating a phone hacking scandal said Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run a major international company.
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.
Rupert Murdoch can be expected to be personally furious and potentially devastated by the partisan-but-damning judgment of a committee of British lawmakers that he is not a "fit" person to run an international business.
Rupert Murdoch is a hero to the right and a demon to the left. But Wall Street doesn't care about red state/blue state distinctions.
CNN's Becky Anderson talks to former News Corp. editor Andrew Neil about Rupert Murdoch's testimony.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch testified about press ethics in light of the phone hacking scandal in Britain.
British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt rejected suggestions Wednesday he had acted improperly in his dealings with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
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.
London police have asked prosecutors to file charges against at least eight people in connection with phone hacking by journalists, the Crown Prosecution Service said Wednesday.
CNN's Maggie Lake talks to Mark Lewis, attorney for hacking victims, about possible legal action in the U.S.
A critical report Thursday into links between top officers at London's Metropolitan Police Service and a former deputy editor of the News of the World found professional boundaries were blurred and poor judgment shown.
Sky News says that hacking phone calls was "editorially justified."
British lawyer Mark Lewis said Thursday he is preparing to take legal action on behalf of three clients who believe their phones were hacked while they were in the United States.
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 former News of the World journalist who was arrested last August in connection with alleged phone hacking will not face further police action, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp was on Tuesday facing a fresh barrage of allegations over its business practices after an Australian newspaper released 14,000 emails concerning one of the group's security subsidiaries.
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.
James Murdoch is giving up leadership of News Corp.'s scandal-plagued U.K. newspaper publishing business.
You just can't tell with Rupert. According to his friends -- and there are still many in journalism, even if British politicians are for once giving him a very wide berth -- this is Rupert Murdoch at his back-to-the-wall, defiant, unpredictable best: pulling rabbits out of hats, raising rock-bottom morale and announcing the launch of a new Sunday tabloid to replace the defunct News of the World. And not just "some time soon," but this coming Sunday.
Alistair Campbell says UK newspapers print "complete nonsense" to support their owners' agendas.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on arrests and raids on News international's offices in a corruption investigation.
Four current and former employees of Britain's Sun newspaper were arrested by authorities investigating claims of inappropriate payments to police, News Corp. and police said Saturday.
CNN's Dan Rivers outlines the evidence Piers Morgan gave to the Leveson Inquiry into British press ethics.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's e-mail may have been hacked by private investigators working for British newspapers when he was the country's top finance official, the Independent newspaper reported Monday.
British newspapers print "complete nonsense" in support of agendas set by their owners, former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell said Wednesday.
James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of a pair of companies that publish News Corp's UK newspaper titles.
The mother of missing British girl Madeleine McCann felt "totally violated" when she saw her diary had been published in the News of the World newspaper, she told an inquiry into British press practices and ethics Wednesday.
News International, publisher of the now-defunct News of the World, admitted on Monday that the Sunday tabloid had hired a private detective to spy on lawyers defending celebrities and politicians targeted by phone hacking.
A simmering scandal and disgruntled shareholders weren't enough to hold back News Corp these past few months, as the company reported a 7% increase in revenue that beat analyst estimates. News Corp. said in a statement after the bell Wednesday that its revenue had increased to $7.96 billion for the quarter ending September 30 from $7.43 billion a year ago. Net income was $738 million, or 28 cents per share, down from $775 million and 30 cents per share a year ago.
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.
Rupert Murdoch faced an onslaught from irate News Corp. shareholders on Friday over the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the company in recent months.
News International, publisher of the now-defunct News of the World newspaper in Great Britain, has agreed to pay 2 million British pounds -- the equivalent of $3.2 million -- to the family of British teen Milly Dowler, who disappeared in 2002 and was later found dead.
News Corporation's board and investors will gather today for the first time since the hacking scandal surfaced.
CNN's Drew Griffin investigates claims from several companies that News Corp. engages in unfair business practices
The far-reaching News of the World phone-hacking scandal that toppled the 168-year-old British newspaper this summer, led to the resignation of Britain's top police official and threatened Rupert Murdoch's global media empire continues to raise questions about the business practices of parent company News Corp.
A top executive at the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal left this week amid allegations that the paper's European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures, the newspaper itself reported Thursday.
A top executive at the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal left Dow Jones this week amid allegations that the paper's European edition used underhanded methods to boost circulation figures, the newspaper itself reported Thursday.
News Corp is facing fresh questions about its newspaper operations, after allegations that circulation figures for the European edition of the Wall Street Journal were boosted by complex cut-price deals with a sponsor to which it had promised editorial coverage.
A lawyer for numerous alleged victims of phone hacking by journalists has confirmed that he plans to launch legal action in the United States against media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
Britain's phone hacking scandal tested Rupert Murdoch, but the News Corp boss has proven adept at crisis management. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
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.
A 30-year-old man is under arrest in connection with a phone hacking scandal that engulfed Britain's former News of the World newspaper, police in London said Friday.
Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to expand an investigation of whether their relatives' phone messages might have been hacked by employees of News Corp.
As part of a civil case, Glenn Mulcaire is ordered to say who ordered him to hack voicemails. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
An officer working on an inquiry into alleged phone hacking by the News of the World newspaper has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information, police in London said Friday.
A 38-year-old man was arrested Thursday morning on suspicion of conspiring to unlawfully intercept voicemails, police in London said.
A police panel clears top UK cops who were being investigated over the News of the World hacking scandal.
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.
CNN's Dan Rivers and Jim Clancy discuss the implications of accusations made by a former News of the World reporter.
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.
Damaging allegations over phone hacking are continuing to mount against Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Journalists working for a large British newspaper group have been asked to give a written promise that they have not been involved in phone hacking or other illegal activity, the company said Friday.
A 61-year-old man who was arrested in London in connection with an inquiry into phone hacking has been released on bail until October, the Metropolitan Police said Thursday.
News Corp., the embattled media empire that has been rocked by recent phone-hacking allegations, has at least managed to keep its finances intact.
A 61-year-old man has been arrested in London in connection with an inquiry into phone hacking, the Metropolitan Police said Wednesday.
A 71-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into phone hacking, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.
CNN's Dan Rivers takes a look at the latest twist in the 'News of the World' phone hacking scandal.
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.
The mother of a British girl whose murder spurred legislation to protect children says her phone was targeted by a private investigator working for the now-defunct tabloid that led the campaign for the new law.
Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks will meet with top Justice Department officials in late August to discuss whether any of their relatives' phone messages were hacked by employees of News Corp., likely participants said Wednesday.
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.
A British police investigation into illegal activity by journalists appears to have expanded beyond Rupert Murdoch's disgraced and now defunct News of the World tabloid.
Will the fallout from the Murdochs' phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom cross the Atlantic and impede News Corp.'s ability to broadcast in the United States?
Relatives of 9/11 victims will meet with the U.S. attorney general and other Justice Department officials to discuss allegations that a newspaper owned by News Corp. targeted phone conversations and voice mails of victims of the 2001 terrorist attack, a lawyer representing family members said.
Prime Minister David Cameron told British lawmakers during a heated session Wednesday that if he had known then what he knows now about his one-time communications director, former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, he would not have hired him.
British lawmakers investigating police handling of the country's phone-hacking scandal released a blistering judgment on law enforcement and on Rupert Murdoch's News International Wednesday, including criticism of top police officers and former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks.
Nothing illustrated Britain's love-hate relationship with Rupert Murdoch better than Tuesday's parliamentary select committee hearing into the phone-hacking scandal. The British public hate the persona of Murdoch, his power and influence, yet voraciously consume his products.
British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the ongoing phone-hacking scandal in a special session of parliament.
Rupert Murdoch is facing a two-front war. On the eastern front, he has denied knowledge before a House of Commons committee of phone hacking or payments by News Corp. to Scotland Yard while bemoaning the employees who failed him. He will probably escape criminal prosecution in the United Kingdom, unless some senior employee yet turns on him.
Sir Paul Stephenson denied being complicit with News Corp., but he still resigned from the Metropolitan Police, taking responsibility for the force's poor decision in hiring a former deputy editor of the News of the World as a public relations consultant and the failed investigations into the phone hacking scandal at the paper's parent company News Corp.
It's not a subjective point that most of the mainstream media has not liked media mogul Rupert Murdoch or his News Corp. empire, and for a very long time.
Rupert Murdoch, his son James and Rebekah Brooks testify before British lawmakers about illegal phone hackings.
As Rupert Murdoch and his son took the hot seat Tuesday in the British Parliament, old questions about News Corp.'s business practices were getting fresh scrutiny on the other side of the Atlantic.
British journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World are accused of hiring private detectives to hack illegally into the voice mails of thousands of people, ranging from top politicians and celebrities to murder victims and the families of fallen troops.
On Tuesday, Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks are to be quizzed by MPs about the hacking scandal.
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch says he wasn't aware of wrongdoings at his company.
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