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Cable tells of ‘veiled threats’ over BSkyB takeover
Business secretary Vince Cable tells the Leveson Inquiry of ‘veiled threats’ against his party if he made the ‘wrong decision’ over News Corporation’s bid to takeover BSkyB.
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Hunt’s former aide faces second day at Leveson
Jeremy Hunt’s former aide Adam Smith is to make his second appearance at Leveson, after it emerged that the culture secretary favoured News Corp’s bid for BSkyB weeks before he was put in charge.
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Rupert Murdoch ‘not a fit person’ to run a big company
MPs investigating phone hacking at the News of the World say News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch showed ‘wilful blindness’ to what was going on at his media empire.
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LIVE BLOG: Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry
Rupert Murdoch appears before the Leveson Inquiry, following his son James’ appearance yesterday which unearthed evidence that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt ‘secretly supported’ News Corp’s bid for BSkyB. Mr Murdoch Snr is due to take the stand today from 10am to 4.30pm and on Thursday. We’ll be live blogging all the action here and you can have your say on the day’s events as they unfold in the box below.
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Hunt ‘secretly backed’ Murdoch BSkyB bid
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.
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Three arrests in corrupt payments probe
Detectives investigating inappropriate payments to police and public officials arrest a Sun journalist and two others following information provided by News Corporation.
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Defiant Murdoch faces shareholders and new allegation
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.
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Murdoch pie-thrower jailed for six weeks
The protester who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch has been jailed for six weeks. Jonathan May-Bowles went for the News Corp boss when he was giving evidence to MPs about the phone-hacking scandal.
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James Murdoch: I answered phone-hack questions ‘truthfully’
News Corp CEO James Murdoch has insisted to MPs that he was truthful when he answered questions in Parliament about the phone-hacking scandal.
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Cameron says ‘I am sorry’ over Coulson
David Cameron says he regrets the furore caused by his hiring of ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson. Meanwhile News Corp has finally ceased payments to convicted phone-hacker Glenn Mulcaire.
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Murdochs and Brooks face MPs’ grilling
News Corporation bosses Rupert and James Murdoch, and former executive Rebekah Brooks, are set to be quizzed by MPs over the phone-hacking scandal.
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As Brooks goes is Murdoch in control or not?
When Peter Mandelson was on the brink of resigning from government the first time many people wondered how a man so expert at public relations and political instincts seemed to have so little understanding of his own position. So it seems with the Murdochs and News Corp. A family and corporation so expert at communication, at capturing what the public wants and feels seems to have taken almost every wrong step possible handling the crisis.
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Murdoch ‘lacked editorial control’
The failure of News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch to take editorial control of his newspapers led to an excess of “celebrity gunge” and ultimately the phone-hacking scandal, one Lord says.
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US phone hacking investigation ‘progressing’
The US Attorney-General says that investigations into News Corp’s American operations are progressing as the House of Lords prepars to debate media conduct.
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Murdoch BSkyB bid referred to Competition Commission
The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt refers the takeover bid for BSkyB to the Competition Commission after News Corp withdraws plans to hive off Sky News.
