Posted 05.11.2012
We're not sure how it started, but we sure do love it. While observing Twitter Friday afternoon, HuffPost Media editors couldn't help but notice a ...
Eric Alterman | Posted 05.02.2012
This is just the latest in a series of tumultuous events surrounding News Corporation -- News International's parent company, founded by James's father, Rupert Murdoch.
Reuters | Posted 01.25.2012
(Reuters - By Yinka Adegoke) - Beyond Oblivion, a digital music startup backed by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and investment bank Allen & Co Director S...
Press Gazette | Dominic Ponsford | Posted 03.07.2012
Fleet Street will be in the dock next week as a variety of leading national newspaper journalists, editors and publishers take the stand at the Leveso...
MediaFile | Posted 01.22.2012
News Corp. Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch sold off the bulk of his common shareholding according to a regulatory filing but, have no fear...
Mike Bellamente | Posted 01.17.2012
When media outlets like Fox News do nothing but discredit climate issues that reside at the core of News Corp's sustainability efforts, it seems curious -- scandalous, even -- that they are left to do so without so much as a disapproving look from the media mogul who spawned them.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 01.11.2012
Despite the damage they have caused, the Murdochs have proven useful to show us the deep danger to democracy posed by excessively concentrated media power.
AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 01.04.2012
LONDON — A journalist at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun tabloid has been arrested on suspicion of police corruption, British media reported Friday, a ...
MP Nunan | Posted 11.06.2011
Hi. I'm Hacking. Not Hacking Cough. Not Hack's License. Those are common mistakes. I'm just Hacking. My full name, really, is, "Using Illicit Means to Access Private Information With a Computer," but I go by Hacking for short.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.24.2011
Does the media have responsibilities? When people are in positions of power or influence over others, is there an inherent obligation to tell the truth?
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.11.2011
Do you really welcome and enjoy the emotional, metaphorical or actual wounding and bleeding of a fellow human as tabloids claim you do?
Posted 10.02.2011
New York magazine writer Frank Rich blasted Rupert Murdoch's empire, calling his company's practices "thuggery" and "bullying" on the "Joy Behar Show"...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.26.2011
Even if The Economist were right about Murdoch as the last mogul, how would we ever know it today?
Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.25.2011
News Corp could follow the lead from dozens of prior companies and hire outside legal counsel to oversee the investigation. What News Corp is doing, once more, goes beyond standard practice and refuses to cede any control.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.24.2011
There is nothing like an English accent to make bulls--t sound like Shakespeare. But it was the King's English Rebekah Brooks spoke at the hearing that made me wonder if I was being too hard on her.
Posted 09.24.2011
News Corp's phone hacking scandal is shaking the foundation of the Murdoch family that Rupert Murdoch placed at the center of his vast media empire. ...
Kieron Hayes | Posted 09.20.2011
While the nation's attention is focused on big business shenanigans there're a whole load of firms out there struggling to cope in a challenging marketplace.
Brian Whetten | Posted 09.20.2011
When we see an executive featured in a corporate scandal, it's usually because they became addicted to success. And sooner or later, this addiction consumed them.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.19.2011
Government oversight cannot happen when government leaders are working night and day to impress a cable news producer who may as well be a reality TV producer restless for drama.
Larry Magid | Posted 09.19.2011
You don't have to be rich or famous to be a phone hacking victim. Unethical journalism aside, it can also happen to someone involved in a messy divorce, a civil suit or as corporate espionage. Here's what you can do about it.
Felix Riley | Posted 09.16.2011
The politicians have shown us what is possible when they harness public outrage, have shown us how an over-reaching bully like Murdoch can be beaten into a retreat. We need the same with the banks and we need it more urgently than any problems deriving from News International.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 06.01.2012