Tag: Rupert Murdoch

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 17:55 UTC

  Wikileaks head will participate, via videoconference, in IAPA assembly in Lima

  

  Inter American Press Association (IAPA) reporters, editors and publishers will hear first-hand and discuss exactly what motivated Julian Assange to release secret diplomatic cables through Wikileaks, a Web site that as a source of information has gained as many followers as detractors.

• Thursday, July 21st 2011 - 09:30 UTC

  Cameron regrets having hired former editor at heart of phone-hacking scandal

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron, defending his integrity in an emergency debate in parliament, said on Wednesday he regretted the uproar caused by his hiring of a former newspaper editor at the heart of a phone-hacking scandal.

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  A humble Murdoch blames in Parliament the “people I trusted” for the phone-hacking scandal

  

  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and his son James testified Tuesday to a British parliamentary committee at which he defended his son and his company over a scandal that has rocked the British establishment.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:06 UTC

  Parliament to question PM Cameron on links with the Murdoch empire

  

  British PM David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.

• Thursday, July 14th 2011 - 23:50 UTC

  Murdoch and son James think twice and agree to testify before British Parliament

  

  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and his son James bowed late Thursday to threats to find them in contempt of British Parliament and agreed to testify about the phone-hacking scandal to lawmakers on July 19.

• Thursday, July 14th 2011 - 18:31 UTC

  Media tycoon Murdoch refuses a summons by British Parliament

  

  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch refused a summons by Britain's parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes at one of his newspapers, leaving a senior executive from his media empire to face lawmakers keen to break the media mogul's grip on politics.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 16:12 UTC

  UK political system targets News Corporation: end of Murdoch’s empire?

  

  Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has announced that it is dropping its planned bid to take full ownership of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The announcement came as the House of Commons prepared to vote for a motion supported by all major party leaders calling on Mr Murdoch to do so.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC

  Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

  

  Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

  

  The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 08:05 UTC

  News of the World exits but the political consequences have just begun

  

  British government lawyers are drawing up a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper reported on Monday.