Rupert Murdoch Apologizes for Running This 'Grotesque' Netanyahu Cartoon
Via Twitter, the News Corporation overlord said cartoonist Gerald Scarfe doesn't represent the views of the Times of London.
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The Koch brothers are reportedly considering a bid for the Tribune Company newspapers — focusing on the crown jewels of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, or at least what jewels of power are left in the flailing newspaper industry — but they may face stiff competition in the form of a debt-free, full pocketed media power player named Rupert Murdoch.
Via Twitter, the News Corporation overlord said cartoonist Gerald Scarfe doesn't represent the views of the Times of London.
Releasing the names of all 600 alleged News of the World hacking victims, as The Independent's Martin Hickman reports U.K. prosecutors intend to do soon, will make for a bevy of embarrassing headlines, but it should also have the effect of ripping off a Band-Aid.
News Corporation's less-than-stellar fourth quarter makes clear the company's reason for wanting to split its print and broadcast operations, as its publishing unit hemorrhaged money thanks in part to last year's News of the World phone-hacking scandal.
In the harshest referendum yet about the success of News Corporation's tablet newspaper The Daily, the publication, which launched in 2011, is laying off 50 of its 170 employees, All Things Digital's Peter Kafka reports.
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.
News Corporation is apparently doing some pruning, pulling the plug on its little-known internal news wire, and putting iPad newspaper The Daily "on watch," reports The New York Observer's Kat Stoeffel.
Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as British Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, is giving testimony in the Leveson Inquiry, where he's very good at avoiding substantive answers.
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.
Of the three people arrested Thursday in the U.K. press corruption probe, the highest profile belongs to Duncan Larcombe, the royal editor for The Sun, who Scotland Yard made it clear was arrested based on information provided by his employer, News Corporation.
Britain is finally getting ready to start prosecuting some people for the whole News International phone-hacking fiasco, and they include four journalists and a cop, along with six others whose files Scotland Yard sent to prosecutors on Wednesday.
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.
The latest high-profile (or, maybe mid-profile) lawsuit to hit News International over the News of the World hacking scandal comes from the father of soccer superstar David Beckham, who filed a complaint in London on Thursday, but it's unclear whether his soccer superstar son was involved.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation set up a division to investigate wrongdoing in its tabloids, and wrongdoing it reportedly found.
Cute British classical-singer-turned-pop-star Charlotte Church told a sad story to Parliament about how she tried to bribe Rupert Murdoch for favorable coverage in his papers with a free concert at his wedding but got the tabloid treatment anyway.
Norman Siegel is investigating a civil action on behalf of 9/11 families who say their phones were hacked
The Pulitzer Prize winner's first Reuters column on News Corp. was withdrawn
Rupert Murdoch's iPad publication has been a pricey endeavor
It's facing numerous lawsuits from celebrities who say their voicemail was stolen
Vevo could leverage Myspace's popular artist fan pages
Happy birthday, Rupert. They can't say you haven't done well for yourself
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