Phone Hacking Scandal

News Corp. Could Face 500 Phone-Hacking Claims

AP | Posted 06.01.2012

LONDON — A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group says the company could face 500 lawsuits from victims of tabloid phone hacking &n...

Rebekah Brooks The Movie: Who Will Do Her Justice?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.18.2012

Move over Avengers Assemble. Out of the way Ridley Scott's Prometheus. The blockbuster the world is waiting for is an upcoming feature film charting t...

Harry Evans Tells Leveson That Rupert Murdoch Sowed Seeds Of Phone Hacking Scandal

Reuters | David Rohde | Posted 05.18.2012

(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspape...

Another Group Petitions FCC To Revoke Murdoch's Licenses

Posted 05.14.2012

Another activist group is calling for the FCC to revoke Rupert Murdoch's broadcast licenses in wake of the phone hacking scandal and damning parliamen...

PHOTOS: One Of The Greatest Trending Hashtags Ever

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 ...

News Corp. Deputy Stands Up For Murdoch

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2012

* Adjusted EPS $0.37 vs $0.31 expected by Wall Street * Revenue rises 2 pct to $8.4 bln * Shares up 2.7 percent after ma...

UK PM Drawn Back Into Phone Hacking Controversy

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.09.2012

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been drawn back into the phone hacking scandal once more, as a new biography claims that he texted former New...

Glenn Mulcaire Asks UK Supreme Court To Back His Phone Hacking Silence

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.09.2012

LONDON — A private investigator jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to bac...

Andy Coulson Fights News Corp. For Phone Hacking Fees

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.08.2012

LONDON (AP) — A private investigator jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to ba...

Rebekah Brooks And Andy Coulson To Face Leveson

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

By Kate Holton LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson - the two former News of the World editors who took the Briti...

Rupert Murdoch's Fellow Plutocrats Rush To His Defense

Posted 05.01.2012

Rupert Murdoch's peers, including Donald Trump and Barry Diller, came to his defense on Tuesday. Following the release of a parliamentary report th...

James Murdoch To Face Parliament Criticism Over Phone Hacking Scandal

guardian.co.uk | Dan Sabbagh | Posted 04.30.2012

James Murdoch will be criticised by MPs investigating phone hacking on Tuesday, but their assessment of his conduct is expected to fall just short of ...

Rupert Murdoch Sued By Koo Stark In US Courts Over Phone Hacking

Evening Standard | Tom Harper | Posted 04.27.2012

Former actress Koo Stark is set to launch a phone-hacking claim against News Corporation in the US courts, bringing the scandal across the Atlantic to...

James Murdoch Appears For Ethics Grilling

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 04.25.2012

LONDON (AP) — James Murdoch defended his record at the head of his father's scandal-tarred British newspaper unit before a U.K. inquiry Tuesday, say...

Michael Calderone

Will British Hacking Scandal Follow Murdoch To U.S.?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.19.2012

NEW YORK -- The News of the World phone-hacking scandal that exploded in England last summer with a spate of arrests, resignations and several ongoing...

Sun Journalist Arrested In Police Bribery Probe

AP | CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Posted 04.20.2012

LONDON — Britain's media ethics inquiry said Thursday it will hear testimony from News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his son James next week...

Prosecutors Weighing First New Charges Over Phone Hacking

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 04.19.2012

LONDON (AP) — Criminal charges are being considered against 11 people in four cases related to investigations into phone hacking and other alleged m...

Movie About Rupert Murdoch And London Times Battle On The Way

Variety | Posted 04.17.2012

Rupert Murdoch's fierce battles with one of his British editors are to be turned into a feature film that will also reference the phone-hacking scanda...

Another Murdoch Newspaper Gets Dragged Into Scandal

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

By Georgina Prodhan LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is facing a claim for exemplary damages after admitt...

Murdoch Awaiting Huge Phone Hacking Development

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

By Kate Holton and Georgina Prodhan LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - A British parliamentary report into a phone hacking scandal may lead ...

News Corp. To Face Legal Battles In The U.S.

Posted 04.12.2012

News Corp. will face three phone hacking-related legal battles in the U.S., according to hacking victims lawyer Mark Lewis. The pending lawsuits re...

UK Police Used Poor Judgment In Phone Hacking Scandal: Report

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 04.13.2012

LONDON (AP) — Senior members of Scotland Yard showed poor judgment in their handling of Britain's phone hacking scandal, the country's police watchd...

For Murdoch, the Sky Has Fallen

Ari Rabin-Havt | Posted 04.06.2012

Ari Rabin-Havt

A scandal that began with The News of the World's hacking of Prince William's voicemail, to ascertain, of all things, that he had borrowed an editing deck from a friend at a rival news organization, has spread to potentially thousands of individuals.

Murdoch Faces Huge Bill For Phone Hacking

Posted 04.06.2012

The costs of News Corp.'s phone hacking scandal have reached over a quarter of a billion dollars and counting. The Independent reports that Rupert...

Murdoch's Sky News Admits To Hacking

AP | RAPHAEL SATTER | Posted 04.05.2012

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's British satellite news channel on Thursday became the latest branch of the mogul's global media empire to acknowledge ...