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London's Top Cop Resigns in Murdoch Hacking Scandal
Max Read · 07/17/11 02:03PMFormer Top Murdoch Exec Rebekah Brooks Arrested
Max Read · 07/17/11 07:43AMScotland Yard Basically Owned by Rupert Murdoch
Max Read · 07/16/11 01:41PMRebekah Brooks Resigns from News International
Jeff Neumann · 07/15/11 04:20AMRupert Murdoch Speaks Out, to His Underling
John Cook · 07/14/11 04:03PMRupert Murdoch has given his formal interview since his world started collapsing around him—to the Wall Street Journal, of course. We're sure it was a hard-hitting barrage of questions. The upshot: He thinks he's handled the crisis "extremely well in every way possible." Yes sir! I was just going to say that.
NYT Pays Off Its Extortionate Foreign Credit Card
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/11 02:49PMSex Writer Says Murdoch Reporter Hacked Her Computer
Adrian Chen · 07/11/11 06:32PMRupert Murdoch's Reporters Illegally Spied on the British Prime Minister
John Cook · 07/11/11 02:20PMLast week, when News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks faced down News of the World reporters to explain why the paper was being cashiered, she warned darkly that all would become clear when the full extent of the rot at her company became known. Today another shoe dropped: Reporters for News International's Sunday Times and Sun illegally accessed former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account, legal files, and family medical records.
Rupe Has Landed
Max Read · 07/10/11 08:56AMNews Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on the day his Sunday tabloid News of the World published its final issue, preparing "to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure," and, we presume, to personally burn some of the incriminating evidence. Of which there appears to be a lot! The Guardian writes that new memos obtained by the police "appear to show that phone hacking was more widespread... than previously thought," and we've heard a rumor that even more papers—including some that aren't Murdoch properties—will be implicated in similar phone hacking schemes soon. That's the man himself above, of course, checking out the News' final page three girl in his Range Rover as he swings by the offices of News International, News Corp's U.K. subsidiary. Rupe! Do the crossword! [image via AP]
Here's the Very Last Cover of News of the World
Max Read · 07/09/11 02:45PMRupert Murdoch's Son Could Face Charges in U.S. and U.K.
Max Read · 07/09/11 08:59AMWhich of Rupert Murdoch's Executives Destroyed Evidence in the Phone Hacking Case?
John Cook · 07/08/11 12:06PMThe latest update in the massively gratifying unraveling of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper holdings: Authorities believe an unnamed executive at News International, News Corporation's British subsidiary, intentionally destroyed "millions of emails" in an attempt to frustrate the criminal investigation into illegal hacking by News of the World reporters and private investigators.