While you weren't looking, Rupert and James Murdoch filed a motion to dismiss charges brought before them in a class action lawsuit over the epic News International phone hacking scandal.
For a second year in a row, News Corp. annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday involved a lot of shareholders firing disapproving questions at Rupert Murdoch, only to re-elect him and the companies 13 other board members.
News International sent out an email on Saturday informing staffers that Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of News International a string of other companies connected with the company's London-based newspaper holdings.
The predictable outcome from this morning's news that police had detained News of the World editor-turned-David Cameron aide Andy Coulson is in: Coulson has been arrested and charged with perjury.
David Cameron went on the defensive against speculation that he conspired with James and Rupert Murdoch over their proposed take over of BSkyB last year.
As James Murdoch's Tuesday testimony before the Leveson Inquiry gives way to Rupert Murdoch's on Wednesday, the UK press is salivating over the notion that David Cameron coordinated with the Murdochs on their takeover of BSkyB before he became prime minister.
The evidence submitted to the Leveson Inquiry about James Murdoch went online Tuesday, and if you're so inclined, you can browse through the PDFs at your leisure. [Leveson Inquiry]
In portraying himself as an innocent party to whatever wrongdoing might have been going on at the newspapers he oversaw at News International, James Murdoch pleaded ignorance of both phone hacking and political influencing during his Leveson testimony.
U.K. regulators have opened an investigation into Sky News ahead of testimony from both Rupert and James Murdoch in the Leveson inquiry.
If this father-son News Corporation duo's responses during last year's parliamentary hearings are any indication, hack-gate watchers shouldn't expect to learn very much.
James Murdoch is stepping down as chairman at British Sky Broadcasting, the latest in a string of titles he's shed since the News of the World hacking scandal started plaguing News Corporation last summer.
It's a week for deja vu in the investigation into phone hacking at News International as Rebekah Brooks was arrested for the second time on Tuesday, and former News Corp head James Murdoch proclaimed his innocence to Parliament.
Rupert Murdoch turns 81 years young on Sunday March 11, an accomplishment for any human being but a true milestone the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., who's had a rough go lately.
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for James Murdoch and his (literal) parent company News Corp., police are now saying that they felt like News International employees obstructed their investigation.
Rupert Murdoch's youngest son is stepping down from the company's British newspaper division as revelations about phone hacking and bribery continue to emerge. Here's a look back at Murdoch's years-long tumble.
James Murdoch has stepped down from his post as executive chairman of News International after a rough bout of testimony before a U.K. parliamentary panel investigating phone hacking and bribery.
After months of waiting, a former News of the World editor 'fessed up to a doozy of a crime: he told one of his reporters to bribe a prison guard and "chuck her some more money later" if need be.
New York Times media critic David Carr's metaphors for James Murdoch's increasingly hopeless-looking defense are many, but one thing seems clear: Murdoch can't deny much more before his credibility is totally shot.
Murdoch sent a letter to Parliament on Monday that he just discovered an email from News of the World editor Colin Myler and News International lawyer Tom Crone sounding pretty concerned about a phone hacking case well before he had previously said he was aware of the allegations. Why did he just find it now? Well, his BlackBerry ate it.
James Murdoch's role as News Corp.'s public face during the phone hacking scandal won't cost him his chairmanship at British broadcaster BSkyB.
After serving as the public face of News Corp. in the phone hacking scandal, James Murdoch has resigned from a number of New Corp executive positions, the London Evening Standard reports.
Neville Thurlbeck, the former News of the World chief reporter at the center of the phone hacking scandal — the man holding the smoking gun, so to speak — picked a curious moment to stand up for News Corp.'s top executives.
At another parliamentary appearance on Thursday, James Murdoch's vehement denial of misleading lawmakers was followed by a suggestion that News Corp. is willing to scale back its British newspaper business even more.
Apparently we've only seen the tip of News Corp.'s phone-hacking iceberg.
It turns out News of the World not only invaded the private lives of those it phone hacked, but also the lives of the lawyers hired to represent the phone-hacked in "an attempt to gather evidence for false smears about their private lives," The Guardian's Nick Davis reports.
Shadowing the Murdoch family would make for terrific reality TV, but since that's never going to happen, the new profile in Vanity Fair might be as close as we can get to understanding the media dynasty.
Blaming James, family appointments with a psychologist over who succeeds Rupert, Elizabeth calling for the heads of Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton--it's all in Vanity Fair's preview of its December issue.
Parliament saw new internal notes and emails between News Corp. employees today that indicate James Murdoch and other executives were aware of its British newspapers's proclivity for phone hacking.
This year's slew of scandals should produce an especially ugly show at Fox Studios, where News Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting will take place on Friday afternoon.
What with the tumult at News Corp. recently, its understandable that Rupert and James Murdoch are experiencing a father-son rift, The New York Times is reporting.
Numbers unearthed by Bloomberg for Murdoch's iPad-only publication aren't so great
The past 24-hours have been rough for the Murdochs
Rupert Murdoch's son has been recalled to Parliament
The same day of an important Parliamentary hearing, News Corp. announces 110 layoffs
A British High Court will hear the testimonies of top News Corp. executives in October
A News Corp. executive waits fro him to say, 'What the hell am I doing here, I need a breather.'"
A Parliamentary committee's characterization of Murdoch revelations took hold
Things went very well for James Murdoch; Rebekah Brooks on the other hand…
The board unanimously backs the embattled son of Rupert Murdoch
Everybody wants to know if BSkyB will ask James to step down as chairman Thursday
After last week's shaky testimonial, the NewsCorp exec has a rough road ahead
On far-right terrorism, James Murdoch's fall, and the debt ceiling as Sci-Fi
The former of James Murdoch's former employees say he lied to Parliament
Two former News Corp. employees say he knew about an incriminating email
'Caylee' laws, the future of News Corp., and Marcus Bachmann-hater hypocrisy
Comics offer some pie-less comedic relief
An American take on the key players leading up to yesterday's Parliament
Handing out gold, silver and bronze medals to Murdoch, Murdoch, and Brooks
News Corp.'s top executives appear at a hotly anticipated hearing before Parliament
The News Corp. CEO called the Wall Street Journal, which he owns
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