Tag: Murdoch
Walt Disney buys Fox entertainment assets for $52.4bn
Walt Disney has agreed to buy 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets for a total $52.4bn (£39bn).
The deal includes Fox's 39% stake in satellite broadcaster...
Rupert Murdoch quits boards of British newspapers: NI
Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of a number of companies behind British newspapers The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, a News...
‘We’re in this together’, Murdoch aide told British PM
David Cameron received a text message from one of Rupert Murdoch’s closest aides saying they were “in this together”, Britain’s press ethics inquiry heard...
Blair admits being too close to Murdoch
Former British prime minister Tony Blair told a press ethics inquiry Monday that he got too close to Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, in evidence...
British PM denies secret deal with Murdoch
British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his...
Murdoch visits British tabloid staff after arrests
Rupert Murdoch on Friday visited the offices of his British tabloid The Sun amid journalists’ anger following the arrests of 10 current and former...
Sun journalists mull legal action as Murdoch flies in
Journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun have contacted a trade union to discuss suing the British tabloid’s owners, the union said, after five staff...
Murdoch flying into Sun storm in Britain
Rupert Murdoch will fly to London this week in a bid to quell the crisis threatening The Sun after five staff at his flagship...
UK police arrest 8 in Murdoch empire bribery probe
British police on Saturday arrested five employees of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a...
Man breaks in Twitter verification with fake account of Murdoch’s wife
Ever since Twitter developed a system in 2009 for authenticating celebrity accounts, following a lawsuit by then-St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa over...
Editor’s assistant held in UK phone hacking probe
British police probing the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World arrested the former personal assistant of Rebekah Brooks, the ex-editor of...
Murdoch suffers BSkyB revolt, but hangs on
Investors holding nearly a quarter of BSkyB shares failed to back the re-election of chairman James Murdoch on Tuesday, in protest over the former...
Britain to recall James Murdoch in hacking probe
British politicians, struggling in their bid to find out who knew what about phone hacking at a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, will recall son James...
Blair is godfather to Murdoch’s daughter
Former British prime minister Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch’s young children, sources said Monday, raising fresh questions about British political...
Murdoch rival closure lifts Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror said it benefited from the closure of the News of the World last month and was satisfied none of its senior executives...
UK Murdoch paper warns website users data stolen
Britain’s Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun has sent a message to readers warning them that computer hackers may have published their data online after...
James Murdoch under pressure over hacking testimony
News Corp executive James Murdoch was under pressure on Monday over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media...
