A spin-off of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers is looking more likely as a way of defusing public hostility over his role in the UK media and keeping alive his hopes of eventually buying British Sky Broadcasting .
Not only does the billionaire “media mogul” seem to be confused and somewhat incoherent, but he has also washed his hands of any wrongdoing at his corporation.
The man whop pied Rupert Murdoch has been detained.
It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat
Screen grab from the news conference show Murdoch's attacker.
During the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into News of the World, a man attacked Rupert Murdoch.
At the beginning of his appearance before committee of MPs to answer questions about phone-hacking at his British newspapers, Rupert Murdoch asked if he could make an opening statement.
The board of directors of News Corp. may pressure Rupert Murdoch to step down as its chief executive as the phone-hacking scandal continues to spiral out of control.
London police are still investigating the unexplained death of whistleblower Sean Hoare who was found dead at his apartment on Monday.
Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group told staff to change their passwords and tighten security, sources said on Tuesday, after hackers attacked the website of his tabloid The Sun.
News Corp independent directors are fully behind Rupert Murdoch, a board member told Reuters on Monday, as his iron grip on his vast media empire came under question because of the hacking scandal that already has consumed his London newspaper company.
During the Murdoch and Brooks' Home Affairs Committee questioning, IBTimes will be live blogging the proceedings.
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The three-year old revelations of a former executive of Fox News, a New York-based subsidiary of News Corp., suddenly take on a new light.
The infamous LulzSec members have emerged once again and this time the victim is the website of The Sun, the UK's best-selling daily newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International.
On Tuesday, LulzSec targeted Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun, hacking the website and putting a fake article with the headline Media moguls body discovered, claiming Murdoch had been found dead in his garden.
In a significant turnaround in the phone hacking saga, Sean Hoare - who first blew the whistle that the now defunct News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, encouraged phone hacking -- was found dead.
News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch faced a surprise attack from a man during a parliamentary committee hearing on Tuesday over the phone hacking scandal. The unexpected incident forced a 10-minute halt of the proceedings.
Computer hackers broke into the website of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling British tabloid and altered the front page to show a fake report about the media mogul's death.
A former News of the World reporter who had substantial knowledge about the scandalous phone tapping which led to the tabloid's demise and the arrest of key editors was found dead in mysterious circumstances.
News Corp independent directors are fully behind Rupert Murdoch, a board member told Reuters on Monday, as his iron grip on his vast media empire came under question because of the hacking scandal that already has consumed his London newspaper company.
