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Murdoch Largesse: NOTW
Crew Offered Work in Siberia

Jul 29, 2011 3:52 AM CDT

Murdoch Largesse: NOTW Crew Offered Work in Siberia

Former staff of shuttered tabloid say they're getting shafted

(Newser) - News of the World staffers were promised they'd be taken care of, but it's turned out to be very cold comfort. The entire crew found themselves out on the street when owner Rupert Murdoch's (now busted) editor Rebekah Brooks announced a shutdown of the tabloid amid the...

Murdochs Granted 60 High-Level Gov't Meetings

Murdochs Were Granted
60 Government Meetings

Jul 27, 2011 1:50 PM CDT

Murdochs Were Granted 60 Government Meetings

Records show tight relationship with PM Cameron

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch, his family, and News International editors and execs enjoyed more than 60 private meetings with British Cabinet ministers—107 meetings if social events are included—over the past 15 months, reports the Independent, which calls the meetings one of the strongest signs yet of the "unhealthily close"...

WSJ: Our Murdoch Coverage Wasn't Good Enough

Jul 26, 2011 4:18 AM CDT

WSJ: Our Murdoch Coverage Wasn't Good Enough

Was lax on owner, but says it's better now

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal did a lousy job of initially covering Rupert Murdoch's phone hacking scandal, admits the paper's special editorial committee. The paper was "slower than it should have been at the outset to pursue the phone-hacking scandal story" and failed to ask tough questions when...

James Murdoch
Under Fire for
Testimony

HACKING SCANDAL

Jul 25, 2011 12:02 PM CDT

James Murdoch Under Fire for Testimony

Parliament may call News International boss back

(Newser) - As the fallout from Britain’s tabloid scandal continues, things could get stickier for James Murdoch in the coming week. The board of British Sky Broadcasting, chaired by Murdoch, has its first meeting since the scandal hit front pages; the firm faces official scrutiny as to whether it is “...

Rupert Murdoch on Wife Wendi Deng: Oh Yes, She's Tough

Murdoch
on Wendi:
'Oh Yes,
She's Tough'

Jul 22, 2011 9:32 AM CDT

Murdoch on Wendi: 'Oh Yes, She's Tough'

Rare personal interview on Chinese TV reveals media mogul's home life

(Newser) - "Oh yes, she's very tough," said Rupert Murdoch prophetically about his protestor-smacking wife Wendi in an interview last month on Chinese TV. "Successful men need a critical wife, it brings him down to earth," said the media mogul. Murdoch went on to give some rare...

O'Reilly Rips
'Ideological'
Hacking
Coverage

Jul 22, 2011 4:00 AM CDT

O'Reilly Rips 'Ideological' Hacking Coverage

Accuses liberal 'New York Times' of exploiting story to hurt Murdoch

(Newser) - Fox News' dead silence on the phone hacking scandal threatening Rupert Murdoch's media empire has finally been broken. And no surprise, Bill O'Reilly is insisting there is absolutely "no intrusion" of the burgeoning scandal on Murdoch's US operations, and that heavy-handed coverage of the scandal is...

Rupert Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal: Former Exec Claims Fox News Has 'Black Ops Office'

Former Exec: Fox News Hacked Phones, Too

Jul 21, 2011 7:48 AM CDT

Former Exec: Fox News Hacked Phones, Too

'Black ops office' existed to do 'counter intelligence' work: Dan Cooper

(Newser) - A former Fox News exec who helped launch the channel in 1996 claims the Rupert Murdoch-owned network has a "counter intelligence and black ops office" that may have engaged in a little phone hacking of its own. The New York "brain room," which most thought was just...

Cameron: OK,
I Shouldn't Have
Hired Coulson

News Corp Scandal

Jul 20, 2011 10:28 AM CDT

Cameron: OK, I Shouldn't Have Hired Coulson

He ducks questions, meanwhile, on BSkyB

(Newser) - David Cameron gave a defiant speech before parliament today, in which he offered a kinda-sorta mea culpa for hiring ex-News of the World executive Andy Coulson. “With 20-20 hindsight and all that has followed, I would not have offered him the job and I expect that he wouldn't...

Jon Stewart: Wendi
Smacks Down,
Rupert Nods Off

Jul 20, 2011 4:22 AM CDT

Jon Stewart: Wendi Smacks Down, Rupert Nods Off

In fact, 'doddering' Murdoch may have won sympathy, say other observers

(Newser) - Wendi Deng came off as having "Chuck Norris-esque hand speed" yesterday while defending her hubby from a pie-thrower, but Rupert Murdoch ... not so much, chortles Jon Stewart . In fact, the 80-year-old publisher is seen nodding off in the middle of his grilling by a parliament committee on the News ...

Meet the Murdoch Pie Tosser

Jul 20, 2011 3:00 AM CDT

Meet the Murdoch Pie Tosser

'Activist comedian' Jonnie Marbles wants to cut Murdoch down to size

(Newser) - The man who nearly creamed Rupert Murdoch —and got creamed by the publisher's wife—is an "activist comedian." Stand-up comic Jonnie Marbles, née Jonathan May-Bowles, tweeted his plan to launch a shaving-foam pie into Murdoch's face yesterday as the beleaguered publisher was being grilled...

Glenn Beck
Laughs About
Dead Tabloid
Whistleblower

Jul 20, 2011 2:02 AM CDT

Glenn Beck Laughs About Dead Tabloid Whistleblower

Foes will exploit Murdoch scandal to hurt Fox, he fears

(Newser) - The death of the whistleblower who landed Rupert Murdoch in trouble drew a big chuckle from Glenn Beck yesterday. "Did you hear about the guy who was the whistleblower on the News of the World thing? I love this story. He woke up dead!" Beck laughs on his...

Smackdown by
Murdoch's Wife
Steals the Show

Jul 19, 2011 4:36 PM CDT

Smackdown by Murdoch's Wife Steals the Show

A glimpse into the life of Wendi Deng

(Newser) - When a protester launched a pie at Rupert Murdoch today , his wife leaped to his rescue, pushing others aside before bashing the assailant on the head. Where did 42-year-old Wendi Deng get such guts—and such reflexes? Born in China, she grew up at a tough time in the country’...

News of the World Scandal
Shows Power of Print

Richard Cohen

Jul 19, 2011 12:57 PM CDT

News of the World Scandal Shows Power of Print

Richard Cohen on Rupert Murdoch's inky downfall

(Newser) - Richard Cohen is thrilled about the downfall of News of the World, and not just because it was “a revolting scandal sheet” run by the hated Rupert Murdoch. “I thrill that what we are witnessing is a good, old-fashioned newspaper scandal,” Cohen writes in the Washington Post...

Murdoch: 'This
Is Most Humble
Day of My Life'

UPDATED

Jul 19, 2011 12:07 PM CDT

Murdoch: 'This Is Most Humble Day of My Life'

Says no evidence 9/11 victims were targeted

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch has concluded his time in the hot seat, with son James by his side. Highlights from today's hearing, a nearly 3-hour-long session in which 10 members of Parliament peppered the duo with questions and a protester chucked a foam pie at Rupert. (Rebekah Brooks is being questioned...

Pie Protester
Lunges at
Murdoch;
Wife Defends

Jul 19, 2011 11:21 AM CDT

Pie Protester Lunges at Murdoch; Wife Defends

Wife Wendi Deng tries to fend off foamy attacker

(Newser) - A little drama toward the end of the Rupert Murdoch hearing today: A protester lunged forward with something like a plate of shaving cream and tried to smear the News Corp chief. Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, jumped up to defend her 80-year-old husband from the attack, notes the Wall ...

Murdoch on Deck for
Performance of His Life

Jul 19, 2011 7:58 AM CDT

Murdoch on Deck for Performance of His Life

Board reportedly considering COO Chase Carey as replacement

(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch heads to Parliament today for perhaps the most clutch performance of his storied career, as his media empire hangs in the balance. News Corp execs who watched the mogul rehearse quietly expressed concern about his answers, Bloomberg reports, and a disastrous appearance could cement rumblings emanating from the...

Guess Who Got Hacked Now?

HELLO, LULZSEC

Jul 18, 2011 6:20 PM CDT

Guess Who Got Hacked Now?

Anonymous, AntiSec target Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks in latest hacks

(Newser) - So it turns out that the News of the World isn't the only gig in town that can hack: Notorious prankster-hackers LulzSec and Anonymous are wreaking havoc with Rupert Murdoch and his empire, reports Gizmodo . Lulzsec fired the first volley, publishing a cheeky account of Murdoch's death—via...

News of the World
Whistleblower Found Dead

Jul 18, 2011 2:21 PM CDT

News of the World Whistleblower Found Dead

Sean Hoare's body found a week after he made new accusations

(Newser) - Sean Hoare—the former News of the World reporter who was the first to publicly accuse editor Andy Coulson of knowing about his staff's phone hacking practices—has been found dead in his home. Police say they were called to check on his well-being, and discovered Hoare's body...

2nd Scotland Yard
Official Resigns

Jul 18, 2011 12:20 PM CDT

2nd Scotland Yard Official Resigns

Another casualty of hacking scandal: Assistant Commissioner John Yates

(Newser) - Britain's spreading phone hacking and police bribery scandal forced another of London's top police officers to resign. Scotland Yard chief Paul Stephenson stepped down last night, followed out the door today by Assistant Commissioner John Yates—who decided two years ago not to reopen police inquiries into phone...

News Corp May Boot Murdoch

Jul 18, 2011 9:27 AM CDT

News Corp May Boot Murdoch

Could daughter Elisabeth replace him?

(Newser) - As News Corp continues to reel from the phone hacking scandal, its independent directors are wondering whether it’s time for a leadership change, insiders tell Bloomberg . The independent directors—who make up 9 seats of the 16-member board—complain that they’ve been given too little information about the...