James Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal

The phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's media company was revealed after the firm handed over three internal emails showing how to tap into the phones of senior politicians and royalty, a London court heard today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted on Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his newspapers' political support.

James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire.

James Murdoch has insisted that he wasn't told of widespread wrongdoing at the News of the World in 2008.

A parliamentary panel investigating the phone hacking scandal within the British outpost of Rupert Murdoch's media empire said on Tuesday that it would recall his son, James Murdoch, to answer more questions about his knowledge of the affair.

Lawyers and former executives have cast fresh doubt on the denials made by Rupert and James Murdoch over Britain's phone hacking scandal, raising the prospect that the media tycoon's son could be recalled for a new grilling by U.K. legislators.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James found themselves splashed on the front pages of US newspapers on Wednesday as the American media offered unusually detailed coverage of the scandal rocking Britain.

The Murdoch who may have emerged best from the question-and-answer session in the British parliament was not Rupert Murdoch or his son James, but his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Rupert and James Murdoch said on Thursday that they planned to appear before a Parliamentary committee investigating Britain's phone hacking scandal - a sudden U-turn after an extraordinary rebuff of lawmakers seeking to question them.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Media titan Rupert Murdoch and his son James refused Thursday to appear in public next week before a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their British media empire, whose chief executive said that she would address the committee.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:British lawmakers have asked Rupert Murdoch, News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and chairman James Murdoch to answer questions on phone hacking next week, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.

On Thursday afternoon, James Murdoch assembled senior executives in the top-floor boardroom in the News Corporation's London headquarters and told them of a momentous decision: To shutter the 168-year-old tabloid at the centre of a deepening phone-hacking scandal and the original heart of the Murdoch media empire in Britain.Hours earlier, he had pr...

The phone-hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch's media company was revealed after the firm handed over three internal emails showing how to tap into the phones of senior politicians and royalty, a London court heard today.

British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted on Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his newspapers' political support.

James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire.

James Murdoch has insisted that he wasn't told of widespread wrongdoing at the News of the World in 2008.

A parliamentary panel investigating the phone hacking scandal within the British outpost of Rupert Murdoch's media empire said on Tuesday that it would recall his son, James Murdoch, to answer more questions about his knowledge of the affair.

Lawyers and former executives have cast fresh doubt on the denials made by Rupert and James Murdoch over Britain's phone hacking scandal, raising the prospect that the media tycoon's son could be recalled for a new grilling by U.K. legislators.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James found themselves splashed on the front pages of US newspapers on Wednesday as the American media offered unusually detailed coverage of the scandal rocking Britain.

The Murdoch who may have emerged best from the question-and-answer session in the British parliament was not Rupert Murdoch or his son James, but his wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Rupert and James Murdoch said on Thursday that they planned to appear before a Parliamentary committee investigating Britain's phone hacking scandal - a sudden U-turn after an extraordinary rebuff of lawmakers seeking to question them.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:Media titan Rupert Murdoch and his son James refused Thursday to appear in public next week before a parliamentary committee investigating phone hacking and bribery by employees of their British media empire, whose chief executive said that she would address the committee.

Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal:British lawmakers have asked Rupert Murdoch, News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and chairman James Murdoch to answer questions on phone hacking next week, a lawmaker said on Tuesday.

On Thursday afternoon, James Murdoch assembled senior executives in the top-floor boardroom in the News Corporation's London headquarters and told them of a momentous decision: To shutter the 168-year-old tabloid at the centre of a deepening phone-hacking scandal and the original heart of the Murdoch media empire in Britain.Hours earlier, he had pr...