The beleaguered News Corp., burdened by an ever-worsening scandal regarding illegal phone-hacking, may be forced to unload its remaining newspapers in Great Britain, according to Rupert Murdoch’s biographer.
Three of the most high-profile executives embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal in Britain will soon be answering questions from British politicians about alleged bribes paid to police officers for information used in newspaper articles.
Will Rupert Murdoch be able to save his Media Conglomerate from the gathering storm of corruption, hacking and political shenanigan charges
The hacker has built his own iPad 3 by combining old laptop parts and a touchscreen.
The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the British media empire of Rupert Murdoch may become the biggest political imbroglio in the UK in many years … but it remains rather tame compared to the Profumo, affair which exploded in the country almost 50 years ago.
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was targeted by the Sunday Times, a newspaper that is owned by News International, which also owned the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
According to police reports sent to Buckingham Palace on Monday, heir to the throne Prince Charles and wife Camilla were among the lineup of targets of phone hacking by the News of the World.
News International officials are facing charges of an alleged cover-up regarding hacking and other widespread criminal activity by British tabloid, New of the World.
The opposition British Labour Party has demanded that the investigation of the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the News of the World (NOTW) commence immediately so that more crucial evidence is not lost.
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Media and politicians both have to take responsibility for the state of affairs
Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World who was ensnared in the ongoing phone-hacking scandal, has been released on police. He was arrested earlier on suspicion of having bribed police officers, corruption, as well as phone-hacking.
A private investigator used by News of the World who allegedly paid police for information regarding stories, was arrested in Surrey Friday.
The shocking closing of the News of the World – the most popular newspaper in Britain – in the wake of a phone hacking scandal has prompted fury and outrage among 200 employees who will soon lose their jobs.
Rebekah Brooks, the embattled CEO of News International, said she will not resign from her post in defiance of massive pressure on her from many quarters, in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the demise of her tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW).
Here are the main events in the long-running phone-hacking scandal which brought down the 168-year old News of the World tabloid on Thursday.
Police in Britain suspect that the former editors of the News of the World deleted millions of e-mails in connection with the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the newspaper and led to its demise.
Rupert Murdoch is putting a stop to the bleeding by closing the disgraced News of the World, Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper.
The group's main objective is to fight for internet freedom and civil rights
Sunday's ad-free edition of the tabloid will be its last
James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's son, has said that his father's tabloid will fold for good at the end of the week.
The scandal rocking Rupert Murdoch's media empire deepened on Thursday with claims that his top-selling British Sunday tabloid hacked in to the phones of relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
