The row over a European circulation deal at the Wall Street Journal will give further ammunition to News Corp shareholders who want owner Rupert Murdoch to quit newspapers, City analysts have said... more
Two leading BSkyB shareholders give qualified support for James Murdoch as chairman following calls from a top US investor that he should quit over the phone-hacking saga... more
Complexity should not blind us to the significance of the drip-drip-drip of revelations that are helping us to get a clearer picture of what happened at the News of the World... more
James Murdoch faced fresh calls to stand down as chairman of BSyB today as Britain's media watchdog prepared to examine 'devastating' new evidence in the phone hacking scandal... more
The advance of the rebels in Libya in recent days raises a new set of questions about the war and Nato's role. If this is indeed the endgame for Colonel Gaddafi's regime, then what comes next? ... more
James Murdoch's evidence to Parliament over the phone hacking scandal was set to come under fresh scrutiny with the publication of new documents... more
BSkyB gives its backing to chairman James Murdoch as his role at the satellite broadcaster comes under pressure in the wake of the News International phone-hacking scandal... more
A former senior lawyer at News International who questioned James Murdoch's version of the phone-hacking scandal has been asked to clarify his allegations to MPs... more
James Murdoch faces the possibility of being investigated by police over the evidence he gave to Parliament. It also emerged the judge leading the hacking inquiry is linked to News Corp chief's son-in-law... more
BSkyB shareholders come under mounting pressure to remove James Murdoch as chairman as the board prepares to meet next Thursday for the first time since the phone-hacking scandal blew up... more
If the Murdochs thought they had damped down the furore over phone hacking with their appearance before MPs this week, today's news will have disabused them of that assumption. But the departure of MPs for the summer recess must raise fresh concerns about how quickly we will get to the truth... more
Rupert Murdoch's media empire bows to public pressure by axing payments to the private investigator who targeted murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler... more
Today's parliamentary hearings on the hacking scandal are its most dramatic showdown so far. The appearance before MPs of Rupert and James Murdoch and former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is the first direct clash between the news organisation's bosses and its critics... more
My vignette below is how I think the next big conversation between James Murdoch and Rupert perhaps ought to go, given the state the company has reached... more
Rebekah Brooks sensationally quit as chief executive of News International over the phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert
Murdoch's media empire... more
BSkyB's board comes under pressure to pay a one-off dividend of up to £2 billion to compensate investors for the failed News Corp takeover while chairman James Murdoch faces questions about whether he should quit... more
The talk in broadcasting circles is that the squeeze on the high street is hitting the pay-TV giants. Churn - the rate at which subscribers quit - is rumoured to have risen in the last few months... more
Today David Davies, one-time BBC presenter and former Football Association executive director, presents his proposals to ensure that much-loved events in the British sporting calendar should be on free-to-air TV... more
The final sentence of James Murdoch’s speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival was hugely significant: “The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit" ... more
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