March 5, 2012
Three people who believe they were targeted by a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World while they were in the United States are considering suing his company in U.S. courts, a source close to the case …
January 19, 2012
The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior management. Murdoch’s News International had …
December 30, 2011
The British arm of News Corp has increased the legal fund it will use to settle civil litigation cases brought by victims of phone hacking to £100 million ($155 million) from £20 million [$31 million], the Independent newspaper reported on …
July 7, 2011
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will close its tabloid News of the World after this Sunday’s edition, as a result of an escalating phone hacking scandal, James Murdoch said on Thursday. “The News of the World is in the business of …
April 8, 2011
Rupert Murdoch’s powerful British news operation reversed course on Friday and admitted responsibility in a phone hacking scandal that had already cost the prime minister’s spokesman his job. News International, parent company of Britain’s top-selling News of the World tabloid, …