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Jeremy Hunt comes under pressure to resign after James Murdoch tells the Leveson inquiry the culture secretary secretly supported News Corporation’s BSkyB bid and leaked information to the Murdochs.
As Rupert and James Murdoch prepare to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry, Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies says prime ministers past and present may face “awkward moments”.
There are calls for investigations in Britain and Australia into claims that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp engaged in piracy to undermine pay-TV companies.
The NoW’s former legal manager Tom Crone says he showed James Murdoch an email containing transcripts of conversations about phone hacking which proved the practice went beyond a “rogue” reporter.
MPs must consider who is telling the truth as James Murdoch disputes the testimony of former News of the World executives in the phone-hacking scandal. Andy Davies reports.
Rupert Murdoch has made an uncompromising address at News Corp’s annual meeting to shareholders amid new allegations of computer hacking. Channel 4 News talks to one major investor.
The man who launched a foam pie attack in Parliament on Rupert Murdoch mimics the media magnate after he leaves court with an assault conviction.
David Cameron’s new rules on transparency were rushed in on the same day Rebekah Brooks quit. The PM slung out the details of his meetings with media moguls, leaving Ed Miliband racing to match his new spirit of openness. And today we are treated, for the first time in British history, to details of who all the ministers are busy meeting (see full list on Number 10’s website).
The man who threw a plate of shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch tells Channel 4 News he knew it was the right thing to do and that he has “much respect” for Wendi Deng for fighting back.
David Cameron says James Murdoch has “questions to answer” in Parliament after an MP refers the tycoon’s phone-hacking evidence to Scotland Yard.
Read their lips. We took the text of Rupert and James Murdoch’s answers to MPs to read between the lines in a word cloud. Run your cursor over a word and click to see how often, and where it occurs.
Gary Gibbon
“The corker of new information was James Murdoch’s answer, extracted like a wisdom tooth without anaestetic, admitting that News International had carried on paying Glenn Mulcaire’s legal fees long after his conviction.”
As David Cameron flies back early from his Africa trip, and the Murdochs are put on parliamentary trial, we are hearing a lot from the Opposition about the close links between Conservatives and the News Corp empire. If Labour party figures really are serious about reining in the power of Rupert Murdoch, they would do…
As the Murdochs face tough questions over phone hacking from a panel of MPs, Channel 4 News profiles the committee members, including Rupert Murdoch’s “tormentor in chief”, Tom Watson.
Rupert Murdoch and his son James have apologised for the phone-hacking scandal while giving evidence to MPs. The session was briefly interrupted by a protester attempting to attack the pair.