Tag: Murdoch

James Murdoch faces calls for police probe on hacking

A British lawmaker referred James Murdoch to police Friday over claims of misleading parliament on the phone-hacking scandal as Prime Minister David Cameron said...

British hacking probe extends beyond Murdoch papers

More newspapers became embroiled in Britain's phone-hacking scandal Thursday as the deputy prime minister said the crisis was a chance to clean up "murky"...

News Corp. will bounce back from scandal: Murdoch

Embattled media mogul Rupert Murdoch vowed Wednesday that News Corp. would bounce back from the phone-hacking scandal, after telling British lawmakers he was not...

Murdoch hit by foam pie

A protester hit Rupert Murdoch with a foam pie on Tuesday as the media mogul testified to British lawmakers on the phone-hacking scandal, in...

Rupert Murdoch attacked at UK parliamentary hearing

Rupert Murdoch was attacked by a protester on Tuesday while giving evidence to a British parliamentary committee at which he defended his son and...

Murdoch denies ultimate responsibility for ‘fiasco’

News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday denied ultimate responsibility for the phone-hacking scandal as he and his son James faced questions from British...

Murdoch faces calls for British media empire break-up

Rupert Murdoch faced calls Sunday for the break-up of his British empire despite issuing a second public apology for the phone-hacking scandal that has...

Murdoch says, ‘We’re sorry’ for hacking scandal

"We are sorry," Rupert Murdoch said in British newspapers on Saturday, as News Corp tried to quell the uproar over a phone-hacking scandal that...

Top Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks quits over hacking

Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper wing, quit Friday as the phone hacking scandal forced the once-mighty media baron...

Murdoch withdraws bid for BSkyB

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. has withdrawn its bid for British satellite broadcaster BSkyB in the wake of the growing scandal over newspaper phone-hacking, the...

Murdoch fights for control after Brown allegations

Rupert Murdoch fought to contain a crisis engulfing his media empire on Tuesday after allegations surfaced that journalists at several of his News Corp...

Murdoch’s Sunday Times also hit by hacking scandal

Britain’s former prime minister Gordon Brown had his phone hacked and bank account breached by The Sunday Times, another British newspaper owned by Rupert...

Murdoch under pressure to reconsider British bid

Britain was looking for a way out of approving media baron Rupert Murdoch's multi-billion dollar deal to buy broadcaster BSkyB amid a phone-hacking scandal...

Murdoch flies to London to tackle phone-hack crisis

Rupert Murdoch was expected to fly into London to tackle a phone-hacking crisis while journalists prepared the last edition of a newspaper they say...

Murdoch hosts film screening amid hacking scandal

A crisis has erupted at media mogul Rupert Murdoch's London newspapers, but that didn't stop the News Corp. chief executive and his wife, Wendi,...

Murdoch hosts film screening amid hacking scandal

A crisis has erupted at media mogul Rupert Murdoch's London newspapers, but that didn't stop the News Corp. chief executive and his wife, Wendi,...

ICCBS, University of Murdoch ink accord

The International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), Karachi University (KU) and the Australia-based University of Murdoch have signed an agreement for collaborative...