Top editors quit at Australian media giant Fairfax
Top editors at Australian newspapers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald resigned on Monday, after parent company Fairfax last week announced an overhaul designed to embrace the digital era.
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News Corp in $2 billion Australia pay-TV bid; Packer cashes up
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp made a $2 billion takeover offer for Australia's Consolidated Media Holdings on Wednesday, boosting top shareholder and billionaire James Packer's warchest as he abandons me
Murdoch confidante in court over hacking scandal
Rebekah Brooks, a trusted confidante of Rupert Murdoch and friend to a succession of British prime ministers, appears in a London court on Wednesday accused of hindering a police investigation into ph
Ex-Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks bailed by British court
A British court on Wednesday bailed Rebekah Brooks, the former aide to Rupert Murdoch and News of the World editor, on obstruction of justice charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal.
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UK prime minister in phone-hacking inquiry
British Prime Minister David Cameron is to appear next week before an inquiry into press ethics sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's newspapers.
Cameron, whose government has been
News International may face over 500 claims by phone hacking victims of ‘News of the World’
News International could be facing more than 500 civil claims for damages from alleged victims of the News of the World phone hacking incident, it has emerged.
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Britain's Blair faces grilling over ties to Murdoch
Tony Blair's decision to openly court Rupert Murdoch to win power and ensure favorable coverage during his decade-long tenure as British prime minister will come under scrutiny when he faces a media i
Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal
Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into 'a Faustian bargain' with the powerful, a former edito
British PM faces scrutiny over ties to Murdoch
British Prime Minister David Cameron faces potentially embarrassing scrutiny of his ties to Rupert Murdoch on Friday when Rebekah Brooks, a former top lieutenant in the tycoon's media empire, appears
News Corp board supports Murdoch after UK report
News Corp's board of directors came out in full support of Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday, some 36 hours after a British parliamentary committee had described him as unfit to run a major