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   Phone Hacking Report: Experts Discuss Implications for News Corp., Murdochs

   11:44 am 5/1/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   Analysts weigh in on the possible impact on News Corp.'s BSkyB stake, its U.K. newspaper holdings and more.Read more

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   U.K. Phone Hacking Report: News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch 'Not Fit' to Lead Major International Company

   2:06 am 5/1/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   UPDATED: A parliamentary committee also condemns Murdoch, his son James Murdoch and the conglomerate for having shown "wilful blindness" amid allegations.Read more

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   U.K. News Corp. Phone Hacking Report to Target James Murdoch (Report)

   1:45 pm 4/30/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   The report from a parliamentary committee is expected to condemn Murdoch and Les Hinton for misleading statements and also criticize two former high-level News of the World staffers.Read more

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   U.K. Prime Minister Grilled About Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Bid for BSkyB

   8:52 am 4/30/2012

   • by Stuart Kemp

   David Cameron in an emergency question session in parliament reiterates his stance that the Leveson Inquiry into media standards is the best way to uncover what went on between the British government and the entertainment conglomerate.Read more

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   U.K. Prime Minister: There Was 'No Grand Deal' With News Corp. Over BSkyB Bid

   5:52 am 4/29/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   David Cameron responded to suggestions that his party was promised media support by the mogul's News Corp. in return for regulatory support of the deal.Read more

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   U.K. Culture Minister to Hand Over E-mails About Rupert Murdoch’s Planned BSkyB Takeover

   3:39 am 4/27/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   Jeremy Hunt says he will supply information to the U.K. government-funded Leveson Inquiry into media ethics after the opposition criticized his interactions with Murdoch’s News Corp. and called for his resignation.Read more

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   Former News of the World Lawyer: Rupert Murdoch Told 'Shameful Lie'

   10:44 am 4/26/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   Tom Crone defends himself against comments from the News Corp. CEO who had told a media ethics panel earlier in the day that people at his company had covered up the extent of the phone hacking scandal.Read more

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   U.K. Media Regulator Turns up Heat On Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and BSkyB

   8:34 am 4/26/2012

   • by Stuart Kemp

   An ongoing investigation into a "fit and proper" test for BSkyB to operate a U.K. broadcasting licence asks for civil litigation papers from the pay TV firm and newspapers.Read more

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   News Corp. Boss Rupert Murdoch Questioned on Political Timing of Failed BSkyB Bid

   8:05 am 4/25/2012

   • by Stuart Kemp

   The mogul describes as “pure coincidence” a timetable that saw his conglomerate launch a $12 billion bid for the U.K. pay TV firm shortly after the last British general election.Read more

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    News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch Discusses Political Influence, Media Regulation, Twitter Comments

    1:22 am 4/25/2012

    • by Georg Szalai

    UPDATED: The mogul tells a British Inquiry into media ethics that he "never asked a prime minister for anything," still admires former conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and that people should not "take my tweets too seriously."Read more

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