Just when you thought News International chief Rupert "Teflon Don" Murdoch might be powerful enough to beat the case, a suspect turned snitch is lighting a new fire under Murdoch's 2011 nightmares.
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.
Like we've come to expect, the latest resignation at News Corp is dramatic, political and slightly shrouded in mystery. It is not, however, at all related to phone hacking.
Rupert Murdoch finally decided who would inherit the perilous job of running his probably doomed new publishing company once the News Corp. beast completes it's transformation into a two headed hydra. Unsurprisingly, he went with his best newsman.
His mojo apparently having returned, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has officially agreed to buy a 49-percent stake in the New York Yankees' personal cable network, YES, with an option to take over 80 percent of the company in three years.
News Corp is reportedly in talks with the New York Yankees to acquire a minority stake in the confidently named YES Network.
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 Corp head Rupert Murdoch still doesn't like Mitt Romney, and it's as much a style thing as a substance thing, Michael Wolff writes in The New Republic.
Jon Miller, the well-respected Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, is on the way out after presiding over the company’s sprawling digital properties. The move comes at a time that News Corp is splitting into distinct entertainment and publishing companies.
Hulu is contemplating some changes to its service, according to what has been described as a "death memo" that will "completely screw up Hulu" obtained by Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.
If you're the editor of a free commuter newspaper that few outside Australia have probably heard of, what's the best course of action when the world's most repressive regime picks a fight with you? As one private citizen from Alaska might say, "Don't retreat, RELOAD!"
Following reports that News Corp. was putting The Daily "on watch" for its big losses, Jesse Angelo, the iPad newspaper's editor, has lashed out against the rumors and the media organizations making them.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The News Corp. board of directors has approved a plan to split the company into two pieces, one for the company's lucrative entertainment businesses and its not-so-lucrative publishing businesses.
The News Corp. board of directors is expected to decide within days whether to start the process that would split the publishing assets from the company. The board is meeting in New York this week in a session called to discuss the restructuring.
The Wall Street Journal — a key arm of the Rupert Murdoch media empire — is reporting that their boss is seriously considering splitting that empire's entertainment and publishing divisions into two separate companies.
Many of the country’s biggest media companies — which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations — are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.
With another admission of illegal hacking by the British press this morning, it's getting hard to differentiate the scandalized newspapers from the non-scandalized newspapers.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is trying to put together a national sports network to rival ESPN, a daunting task, but then, the company does have a history of unseating cable rivals.
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.
After James Murdoch's resignation from News International, new revelations ranging from the attempted suicides of staffers to an executive-level conspiracy against the police are adding a macabre layer to an already twisted story.
Though you wouldn't know it from picking up some British newspapers today, the fact that one-time News Corp. editor Rebekah Brooks was loaned a retired police horse wasn't that a big deal.
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.
On Sunday, News International launched its shiny new Sunday edition on The Sun (which owner Rupert Murdoch boasted sold 3.2 million copies), but the company still faces serious accusations of bribery that could hurt the company as much as its phone hacking scandal.
Five employees of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun tabloid have been arrested in connection with bribing public officials.
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.
Colin Myler, one of the most recognizable names from the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, is coming to Gotham to serve as editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News, arch-rival of Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
The relatives of 9/11 victims who believe an investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News International accessed their phones in the days following the 2001 terrorist attacks are getting really frustrated that the F.B.I. won't tell them whether their numbers are on a list Scotland Yard seized from that investigator.
It's no huge surprise that News Corp. is likely lining its emergency war chest with settlement funds to keep phone hacking victims quiet as the scandal prepares to enter yet another year of revelations.
The New York Times's Home Subscriber alert heard round the world on Wednesday is now enjoying a second, silly turn in the news cycle, mostly thanks to News Corp and Anonymous.
The holidays are great because they bring family and friends together for the opportunity to reflect back on the year and look forward to a new one.
We don't know many of the specifics of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's recent $300 million investment in Twitter but we do know one thing about bin Talal, the richest businessman in the Middle East: he's savvy.
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.
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.
The latest arrest of a News Corp. journalist--this one believed to be The Sun's Jamie Pyatt--happened at 10:30 a.m. this morning, The Guardian 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.
Today in film and television: David Simon only wants four seasons of Treme, HBO moves up the premiere of Luck, and how Halloween spurred DirecTV and News Corp. to iron out a new carriage deal.
Rupert Murdoch was repentant but stood his ground while facing angry critics at a shareholder meeting today.
It's been a rocky road for News Corp. since the news broke this summer that News of the World had hacked the voicemail of a murdered girl, but today the company finally settled with Milly Dowler's family.
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.
The committee investigating phone hacking laughed when Labour MP Tom Watson announced that he'd bought News Corp. shares so that he could speak at the company's annual meeting.
The Guardian reports the European publisher quit over a scheme to boost print sales
Institutional Shareholder Services calls for less family control at News Corp.
Les Hinton, will testify about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal later this month
The practice may open the door for a U.S. prosecution of News Corp.
British police are backing off their order for The Guardian to reveal its phone hacking sources
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