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RUPERT MURDOCH News, Jul 12, 2011

Former British PM says Murdoch's papers hired 'known criminals'
Washington Post
By Anthony Faiola and William Branigin, LONDON — Former British prime minister Gordon Brown charged Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch's newspapers hired “known criminals” to obtain information about him, and a senior police official said he was sure his own ...
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Murdoch's clout should be reduced: newspaper owner
Reuters
Murdoch has moved quickly in recent days to try to draw the sting from the rapidly escalating scandal, first closing the 168-year-old tabloid at the heart of the problem and then referring the takeover deal to a lengthy commission inquiry. ...
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News International Now Controls Sun On Sunday Domain Names
Huffington Post
And in the past day, the scandal has widened to include other Murdoch papers, including the Sunday Times and Sun. Jittery News Corp. shareholders watching market share plummet by the billions may push Rupert Murdoch to sell off his beloved British ...
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Alex Salmond’s links to Murdoch newspapers questioned
The Drum
Alex Salmond is coming under pressure to reveal his links to the Murdoch newspaperswhich backed him to become First Minister, claims the Daily Record today. The Trinity Mirror owned tabloid, which backed the Scottish Labour Party at the recent ...
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News of the World's phone hacking scandal: a wake-up call for journalism
Alaska Dispatch
The puzzling thing about Rupert Murdoch is that he knows the difference between good journalism and bad. Years ago, when I sat on the board that awards Pulitzer prizes, I got a call from a reporter at a not-so-admirable Murdoch newspaper. ...
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How Britain's Guardian is Making Journalism History
The Atlantic
The newspaper has taken the lead in breaking open the phone- and data-hacking scandal that poses probably the most serious threat to the future of Rupert Murdoch'sNews International in its decades of ascendancy as Britain's most powerful news ...
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UK Lawmakers Summon Murdoch Over Phone Hacking
KXLY Spokane
Brown accused Murdoch's newspapers of having "links with criminals" as he spoke to the BBC Tuesday about allegations the Sunday Times illegally obtained private information about him. Brown accused the paper of getting his bank details, saying he was ...
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Detective to sue News International for harassment
Reuters
News Group Newspapers is a subsidiary of News International, owned by the News Corporation group of Rupert Murdoch. A large number of celebrities have sued the publishers of the News of the World, closed down on Sunday in an effort to stem a widening ...
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The Rupert Murdoch Lesson the U.S. Media Should Learn
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
By Susan Milligan Rupert Murdoch always had one impressive asset going for him as he lorded over his world publishing empire: while cities around the globe saw the demise of their local newspapers, Murdoch expanded. Some of his newspapers were lurid ...
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Murdoch at bay: what the papers say
The Guardian (blog)
Day eight of the Rupert Murdoch feeding frenzy, and there is no sign of it abating. As for the opinion articles, by far the most interesting - for obvious reasons - are those in The Times and The Sun. The Times's editorial observes that News ...
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UK government turns against Murdoch BSkyB bid
Go Jamaica
The decision followed a dramatic accusation by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown thatMurdoch's UK newspapers employed criminals to obtain confidential information about his family and ordinary people, and as police officers came under sharp criticism ...
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Timeline: Hacking scandal hits News Corp bid for BSkyB
Reuters
September 2009 - Les Hinton, chief executive of Dow Jones and former executive chairman of Murdoch's newspaper arm in Britain, tells a committee of legislators anyproblem with phone hacking was limited to the one, already well-publicized, case. ...
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scandal could gain US legal scrutiny
CNN International
That can be easy to figure out when the subject is a contract, but any case involving Murdoch's empire might present more of a challenge. "How many more newspapers did you sell?" he asked. Still, US authorities may choose not to intervene at all. ...
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British government moves against Murdoch
MSN Philippines News
Lawmakers took advantage of his presence to call on him, his son, News Corp. executive James Murdoch, and Brooks to appear to face questions about hacking and allegations that Murdoch papers paid police for information. News International said it would ...
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On Heels of News of the World Closure, A Look at Newspaper Ethics at Home
WNYC (blog)
By Stephen Nessen Amid a phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of the RupertMurdoch-owned tabloid News of the World in the UK last week, experts saynewspapers in the US employ self-policing ethical standards that can often walk the line of ...
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Murdoch May Be Forced to Unload UK Papers
International Business Times
The beleaguered News Corp., burdened by an ever-worsening scandal regarding illegal phone-hacking, may be forced to unload its remainingnewspapers in Great Britain, according to Rupert Murdoch's biographer. The highly-profitable and wildly popular ...
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Mr Cameron, please don't hurt our Free Press
Impact Magazine
Forecasts for the future of the British media look even bleaker as theMurdoch empire continues to encroach on our TVs and newspapers. So far, in spite of widespread criticism and new phone-hacking allegations seemingly being made per hour, ...
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Tom Crone: News International's go-to man on legal issues
The Guardian
At no stage during their investigation or our investigation did any evidence arise that the problem of accessing by our reporters, or complicity of accessing by our reporters, went beyond the Goodman/Mulcaire situation." Last week, James Murdoch said ...
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UK's News of the World bows outs with almost 4 million sales
Reuters
LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - The last edition of Britain's News of the World newspapersold 3.8 million copies, an increase of 1.1 million from the previous week, News International said on Tuesday. Retailers were hit by unprecedented demand with many ...
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Readers of The Times start to complain about Murdoch connection
Telegraph.co.uk
Readers of The Times have started to complain about its connection to the axed News of the World, with some telling the venerable newspaper they are cancelling their subscriptions. By Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor For many, the fact that the ...
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News of the World scandal expanding to other Murdoch papers
NECN
(NECN/CNN: Fionnuala Sweeney) - The News of the World scandal is spreading to otherMurdoch enterprises. Murdoch is facing more heat as another newspaper of his is now being implicated. A competing tabloid has made claims that 9/11 victims were ...
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Murdoch may appear before UK parliament committee
Ynetnews
Rupert Murdoch and two senior executives have been called before an influential British parliamentary committee that scrutinizes the media to answer questions about the growing phone-hacking scandal that has shaken his UK newspaper group, ...
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Outrage against Murdoch is misdirected, says ex-News Corp executive
The Guardian (blog)
For the record, he spent 50 years working for Murdoch, retiring aged 65 in 2002 as News Corporation's executive vice president of human resources. O'Neill played a key role in setting up the company's Wapping plant before the papers were moved there ...
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Murdoch's News Corp boosts US stock buyback to support share price
Monsters and Critics.com
The company has lost 7 billion dollars in market value since last week, when the Australian-born media magnate Rupert Murdoch closed down the high-circulation Sunday newspaper, News of the World, over the hacking affair. Now, there are signs that the ...
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News International: Scotland Yard at war with Rupert Murdoch
Daily Mail
The final straw came yesterday when the Queen and the Royal Family were drawn into the scandal engulfing the Murdoch machine. The BBC's business editor Robert Peston broke the astonishing news that the Sundaynewspaper was paying a corrupt Royal ...
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Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, and the endangered scruple
Washington Post (blog)
We'll click on Murdoch's papers in an instant, but turn on them just as quickly. It's our hypocritical horror at what we've demanded. Why this line? “If we don't give it to them, someone else will,” is the new argument in a nutshell, as Howard Kurtz ...
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Bobby Friedman: Closing Murdoch's Papers Could Kill Opinion
By Bobby Friedman
The problem is that newspapers are run as private enterprises and yet they provide a public service. The fact that the current structure has maintained the UK's brilliantly high circulation rates is to be applauded but not taken for ...
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Three Murdoch Papers Reportedly Targeted Gordon Brown - NYTimes.com
By By ROBERT MACKEY
Just one day after the last edition of The News of the World was printed, new allegations of misconduct by journalists working at newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch surfaced.
The Lede
Murdoch Hack Attack: More Papers Caught in Scandal - World News ...
By Jeanette Torres
Warren Little/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Fresh allegations that not one but three of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been involved in illegal activities have marred the media mogul's multi-billion dollar deal to buy full control of British ...
World News - ABC News Radio
Former British PM says Murdoch's papers hired 'known criminals ...
By TOWF
LONDON — Former British prime minister Gordon Brown charged Tuesday that RupertMurdoch's newspapers hired “known criminals” to obtain information about him, and a senior police official said he was sure his own … ...
The Wire
Murdoch summoned by British MPs over phone hacking - Interaksyon.com
By Alice Ritchie, Agence France-Presse
British lawmakers summoned Rupert Murdoch and his top executives for questioning in a dramatic new turn in the phone hacking row Tuesday, as police accused his newspapersof blocking their investigations.
Interaksyon.com
UK government turns against Murdoch BSkyB bid - seattlepi.com
The decision followed a dramatic accusation by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown thatMurdoch's U.K. newspapers employed criminals to obtain confidential information about his family and ordinary people, and as police officers came under sharp ... On Monday, he said Murdoch should focus on the hacking and bribery issues, not the takeover. Cameron has been embarrassed by the arrest of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who from 2007 until January was the prime ...
Business Heds Index
Ex-PM Brown alleges Murdoch paper used criminals (AP) | Journal of ...
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LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday accused RupertMurdoch's newspapers of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family, his private financial affairs and the lives of ordinary ... if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens – OurProblem With Mainstream Dissidents. ...
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Cagle Post » Murdoch's Hacking Scandal: The Man Behind the Curtain
By Joe Gandelman
Other Murdoch papers were reportedly involved. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused a Murdoch paper of hacking into private medical records detailing his son's cystic fibrosis. Police were paid to get phone numbers of ...
Cagle Post
UK government turns against Murdoch BSkyB bid | Stock Market News ...
By Editor - Finance Top Stories
LONDON (AP) — The British government on Tuesday joined in calls for Rupert Murdochto shelve his ambition of taking full control of British Sky Broadcasting as hisnewspapers are embroiled in a spreading investigation of alleged phone hacking and bribery. ... Meanwhile, opposition Labour Party legislator Tom Watson said Brooks,Murdoch and his son James had been invited to appear next week before the House of Commons committee which deals with media issues. ...
Rocket News
UK lawmakers want to question Murdoch over phone hacking – This ...
By harberra
Brown Tuesday accused Murdoch's newspapers of having "links with criminals" as he spoke to the BBC about allegations the Sunday Times illegally obtained private information about him. Brown accused the paper of getting his bank details, ...
This Just In
UPDATE: Ex-prime minister says Murdoch paper used criminals ...
LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Rupert Murdoch's newspapers today of employing criminals to obtain confidential information about his family, his private financial affairs and the lives of ordinary people who ...
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Democracy Now: Murdoch Scandal Expands; Scotland Yard, Former ...
By wheresthemic
The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire continues to expand. The New York Times reports that five senior British police investigators discovered in 2006 that their mobile phones were targeted soon after ...
Aware and Outraged
Former British PM says Murdoch's papers hired 'known criminals'
By Anthony Faiola and William Branigin, LONDON — Former British prime minister Gordon Brown charged Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch's newspapers hired “known ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQA4owlAI_story.html
Bobby Friedman: Closing Murdoch's Papers Could Kill Opinion
The problem is that newspapers are run as private enterprises and yet they provide ...Worryingly, the profit made by Murdoch's papers is relative small fry ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../closing-murdochs-papers-c_b_89...
The Brunswick News - More Murdoch newspapers face allegations of ...
LONDON -- Rupert Murdoch's media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in privacy violations that ...
www.thebrunswicknews.com/.../a1043-BC-EU-Britain-Phone...
Murdoch's clout should be reduced: newspaper owner
When asked if he thought Murdoch knew, he said: "Hopefully he did not know." When asked if he thought Rebekah Brooks, who runs News Corp's British newspaper ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-newscorp-russia-idUSTRE76B43B201...
Murdoch papers treat World's End with tabloid flare | Reuters
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers feasted on... but media typically do a poor job in covering negative issues related to ...
uk.reuters.com/.../uk-newscorp-coverage-idUKTRE7676RO20...
UK lawmakers summon Murdoch over phone hacking - CNN.com
"Senior executives" of Murdoch's British newspaper company "will cooperate," News International said in a statement, without specifying names. ...
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/.../uk.phone.hacking.scandal/
Newspaper scandal eases Murdoch grip on UK politics
British politicians have said in the past they feared criticizing Murdoch papers in case they were targeted by them. Jim Sheridan, an opposition Labor ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-britain-newscorp-cameron-idUSTRE7...
Information: Sex-life bloggers hacked by Murdoch newspaper? - PC ...
Did sex-life bloggers have their computers hacked by Murdoch newspaper? | Naked Security ... Sex-life bloggers hacked by Murdoch newspaper? problems? ...
www.pchelpforum.com/.../114724-sex-life-bloggers-hacked-...
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Rupert Murdoch's ...
Add Gordon Brown to the list of those allegedly hacked by News Corp employees. The former British PM believes journalists from multiple Rupert Murdoch-owned ...
www.newser.com/.../former-british-prime-minister-gordon-br...
Back Issues: Rupert Murdoch Making News : The New Yorker
Back Issues. Timely notes from The New Yorker's archive. « James Murdoch ... Some of his newspapers and magazines are descendants of the old “penny ...
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/.../rupert-murdoch.html
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Good riddance to one Murdoch newspaper ...
Good riddance to one Murdoch newspaper, but here comes another . ... Even though that paper has some hacking issues it needs to answer to as well. ...
blastfurnacecanada.blogspot.com/.../good-riddance-to-one-mu...
Three Murdoch Papers Reportedly Targeted Gordon Brown - NYTimes.com
Just one day after the last edition of The News of the World was printed, new allegations of misconduct by journalists working at newspapers owned by Rupert ...
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/.../three-murdoch-papers-reportedl...

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