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  • 7 Jul 2011

    The Government’s decision on Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of BSkyB could be delayed after a flurry of responses, as the broadcaster’s share price falls in the wake of News of the World hacking claims.

  • 6 Jul 2011

    Rupert Murdoch is standing by Rebekah Brooks as calls grow for her to resign from News International because of the phone hacking scandal. Add your voice to the live blog.

  • 6 Jul 2011

    David Cameron calls for a public and independent inquiry into “disgusting” phone-hacking allegations as Rupert Murdoch backs former NOTW editor Rebekah Brooks.

  • 3 Mar 2011

    Sky News will be spun off by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, allowing the media mogul’s proposed deal to take full control of BSkyB to go ahead with Government backing.

  • 25 Jan 2011

    The M word and m'learned friend

    The issue of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is back on the front page. It hasn’t been far from it since he expressed the desire to take over the rest of BSkyB that he does not own.

  • 23 Dec 2010

    Christmas is a-coming for m'learned friend!

    Is Rupert Murdoch’s take-over bid for BSkyB going to be resolved in the end by the judges? 2011 promises to be a prosperous one for at least one branch of the Bar, blogs Jon Snow.

  • 4 Nov 2010

    The business secretary Vince Cable has referred a proposed buyout of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to the media regulator Ofcom.

  • 29 Sep 2010

    Sarah Murdoch, the supermodel daughter-in-law of media baron Rupert Murdoch, announces the wrong winner of Australia’s next Top Model in an error dubbed the country’s “most awkward TV moment”.

  • 17 Apr 2023

    A defamation trial involving some of the biggest names in US broadcasting has been delayed for 24 hours.

  • 8 Mar 2023

    Fox News may have served as a very public platform for the baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, but behind the scenes things were very different. 

  • 9 Dec 2021

    Sienna Miller has said The Sun newspaper “nearly ruined her life” and “profited off her misery”, after intruding into her personal life – and private medical records. She said one of its journalists paid someone to access medical records showing she was pregnant – and that the paper’s then editor Rebekah Brooks told her publicist…

  • 5 Sep 2020

    If the aims of the latest Extinction Rebellion protests overnight were to get publicity and provoke a backlash, they worked. 

  • 5 Jun 2018

    Rupert Murdoch’s bid to take full ownership of Sky has been thrown a lifeline. The government says the deal could go ahead if Mr Murdoch agrees to sell off Sky News to a credible owner. Unfortunately for Mr Murdoch, the government has also cleared a rival offer for Sky from the US media giant Comcast.…

  • 27 Feb 2018

    The US media giant Comcast, which owns NBC and Universal Pictures, has launched a £22 billion bid for Sky, which could frustrate Rupert Murdoch’s efforts to take over the company. He’s already been the subject of concerns from the competition regulator about the amount of influence he would have over Britain’s media. Comcast says the only…

  • 23 Jan 2018

    There’s been a major setback for Rupert Murdoch after the competition watchdog ruled that Fox’s multi-billion pound bid to take over Sky was not in the public interest. An interim ruling from the Competition and Markets Authority said it would give the Murdoch family too much influence over public opinion and the political agenda in…

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