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.
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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.
As journalistic crimes go, phone hacking gets all the attention, but one former News of the World reporter describes techniques that make listening to voicemails seem like nothing.
The task of trying to estimate the tab News Corporation will have to pick up by the time this phone hacking mess is all over just got a bit easier as The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that lawyers expect the company to face 500 legal claims in total.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spokesman Andy Coulson, once the editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, found himself in police custody for a second time on Wednesday, in a perjury case.
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]
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.
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.
Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International has been arrested for a second time in the ongoing probe into corruption at Rupert Murdoch's British papers, along with her husband and four others.
Without a replacement set up, the industry-funded body that had been in charge of regulating Britain's press ethics for the last 21 years got permission to close down immediately rather than operate as a lame duck.
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.
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.
Amid the apologies and lame excuses that have characterized the British Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, the Sun's former political editor Trevor Kavanagh has finally fought back on the paper's behalf calling the police investigations into journalists a "witch hunt," but nobody's buying the victim routine.
After months of testimony and legal wrangling, Rupert Murdoch's News International decided on Thursday to go ahead and settle 36 high-profile phone-hacking cases at once, getting the attendant publicity out of the way in one swoop.
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.
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Remember earlier this year when news emerged that Preet Bharara, the Attorney General investigating News Corp.'s phone hacking practices in the United States, also happens to be best friends with a key member of News Corp.'s board?
Former News of the World editor and current CNN talk show host Piers Morgan looked nervous during his appearance testifying about phone hacking before the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday.
Piers Morgan has just finished testifying in the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking, but the CNN host and former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor may have already tipped his hand in past interviews, The Guardian points out.
Nearly six months after Heather Mills alleged he had listened to her voice mail, former News of the World editor, current CNN host and now former America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan will "explain himself" via video to the Leveson Inquiry next week.
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.
He was one of the first arrested for alleged phone hacking at News of the World, and now private investigator Glenn Mulclaire has become the 20th.
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.
A new report that the British tabloid News of the World hired a private eye to spy on the lawyers of phone-hacking victims just got a bit Darker (yes, with a capital D!).
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.
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The Guardian reports the European publisher quit over a scheme to boost print sales
Les Hinton, will testify about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal later this month
Former police consultant Neil Wallis traded bribes for exclusives
Norman Siegel is investigating a civil action on behalf of 9/11 families who say their phones were hacked
British police are backing off their order for The Guardian to reveal its phone hacking sources
Rupert Murdoch's lawyers have shown they're ready to settle out of court, and not for peanuts
The past 24-hours have been rough for the Murdochs
A former News of the World reporter is refusing to answer questions from Parliament
Police have made the 16th arrest in connection with the News of the World hacking
James Murdoch may be called in to testify as soon as next week
It would complicate on-going investigations
A British High Court will hear the testimonies of top News Corp. executives in October
Glenn Mulcaire has outed the News of the World staff
Was earning severance package after he started working as media adviser for Tories
Evidence of bribes could unhinge Rupert Murdoch's businesses in the U.S.
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