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Cassell Bryan-Low and Paul Sonne, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 15 at 4:02 am PT
Prosecutors in the U.K. charged the former head of News Corp.’s British newspaper unit, Rebekah Brooks, with conspiring to obstruct justice, marking the first charges filed in a wide-ranging criminal investigation into wrongdoing at the U.S. media company’s British tabloids.
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Paul Sonne and Jeanne Whalen, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 1 at 4:37 am PT
The U.K. parliamentary committee probing illicit voicemail interception by News Corp.’s shuttered News of the World tabloid released a final report Tuesday concluding that News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” and accusing several former company executives of misleading parliament.
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Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on April 24 at 10:45 am PT
James Murdoch faced tough questions about News Corp.’s political influence in Britain — especially with a key government minister — and his handling of a scandal over illicit reporting tactics at the company’s British tabloids, during a public grilling before a judge-led inquiry into U.K. media practices.
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Paul Sonne and Cassell Bryan-Low, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Media on January 19 at 3:44 pm PT
News Corp. has reached settlements in a majority of the civil lawsuits it faces in Britain over phone hacking at the now-closed News of the World tabloid, but the media giant faces new claims by victims’ lawyers that senior employees covered up wrongdoing and destroyed evidence.