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2 Murdoch Reporters Attempt Suicide

Rob Quinn — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:16:23 CST

The pressure appears to be taking its toll inside Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Two senior reporters at the Sun have attempted suicide as police step up their inquiry into illegal practices at the British newspaper, according to the Evening Standard . News International, the British wing of Murdoch's News Corp, is...

Murdoch's Sun Regularly Paid Off Corrupt Officials

Matt Cantor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:55:20 CST

Reporters for Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid made a habit of paying off not just the police but also public officials, normalizing a "culture ... of illegal payments," the officer leading the police investigation into News International told an inquiry today. "Systems have been created to facilitate those payments whilst hiding the...

News Corp Inches Closer to US Bribery Probe

Matt Cantor — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:00:05 CST

Saturday's arrest of five journalists at Britain's Sun over alleged bribery may have increased the likelihood of a new investigation of News Corp—on this side of the pond. The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for US companies to bribe public officials overseas, and prosecution could...

5 Sun Staffers Arrested in UK Bribery Scandal

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:57:40 CST

Five staff at Britain's largest selling tabloid the Sun were arrested today along with three other people over alleged bribes paid to police and defense officials. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said in a statement that police had also searched the homes of the five staff and the group's London offices,...

James Murdoch Quits Times , Sun Boards

Matt Cantor — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:14:51 CST

James Murdoch has unexpectedly quit as a director at both the Times and Sun newspapers amid continued phone-hacking fallout. News International CEO Tom Mockridge is taking over Murdoch’s positions, leaving no Murdochs on the British papers’ boards; that prompts London’s Evening Standard to question News Corp’s plans for the flagship...

NotW May Have Phone Hacked 5,795 People: Police

Kevin Spak — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:01:26 CDT

News of the World’s private investigator listened in on a lot of people. Police say that professional snooper Glenn Mulcaire’s 11,000 pages of notes contain the names of 5,795 potential victims—almost twice the 2,000 to 3,000 the Guardian initially reported two years ago, according to...

Sun 's Call to Gordon Brown 'Unforgivable'

Matt Cantor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:38:58 CDT

Learning that your child has a disability is hard enough—but try getting a phone call saying his illness will be front-page news. That’s what happened to Gordon Brown when his family was still coming to terms with his son’s cystic fibrosis: Then- Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, now CEO of...

Twitter Campaign: Boycott Murdoch

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:40:38 CDT

Could Fox News and the New York Post get swept up in the fallout from the News of the World scandal? Determined Twitter and Facebook campaigns are urging the boycott of all Rupert Murdoch operations in the wake of the burgeoning phone hacking scandal at the shuttered British newspaper. Boycottmurdoch...

Gordon Brown: Murdoch Papers Hacked Me, Too

Matt Cantor — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:36:50 CDT

Add Gordon Brown to the list of those allegedly hacked by News Corp employees. The former British PM believes journalists from multiple Rupert Murdoch-owned papers illegally accessed his bank information and his phone messages, a source close to Brown tells CNN . That led to a story in the Sun about...