UK woes fail to trouble News Corp investors
Shareholders show more interest in the group’s share buyback plan as the scandal forced it to shut the News of the World and drop its pursuit of BSkyB
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Scandal over a rising tide of allegations about phone hacking and payments to police has resulted in the demise of the 168-year-old News of the World and a series of high-profile arrests of current and former News Corp employees
Hunt aide told News Corp of licence fee deal
Emails show close adviser giving a Murdoch lobbyist advanced notice as pressure builds on the culture secretary before his Leveson testimony
Search for a solution among the subplots
Inquiry into phone-hacking seeks right amount of regulation
Coulson charged over perjury allegations
Move relates to Tommy Sheridan trial
Gove tells Leveson of regulation fears
Sign that recommendations may face cabinet resistance
CPS rules against hacking leak charge
Information fed to Guardian ‘not highly sensitive’
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Parliament takes Murdoch to task
Inquiry verdict is blunted by the observation that the News Corp chief is ‘not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company’
Murdoch: politics and business
To suggest that the man behind one of the world’s most successful businesses is unfit to run a big company is laughable
Hunt and the ministerial code
Now Mr Cameron seems content to let a cloud hang over Mr Hunt, possibly for months
The ringmaster may change; our circus will stay
Journalism is part of a larger crisis in public life. Politicians have come to see the media as both enemy and salvation, writes John Kampfner
Media mogul who never had to ask
Rupert Murdoch had too easy a ride from politicians because until recently, his support was the talisman of British politics
Just another businessman playing the power game
Politicians come and go, but Rupert Murdoch represents long-lived, market-tested institutional power, writes Philip Delves Broughton
Ofcom scrutiny raises stakes for investors
Behind the theatre surrounding the Leveson inquiry lie serious questions about the impact of this week’s revelations on bigger business interests than Fleet Street’s disgraced tabloids
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The Leveson inquiry has finally arrived at the heart of an issue that has long bedevilled the UK media and political establishment, writes John Gapper
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The content of the emails is explosive and its impact has put Jeremy Hunt in the line of fire, writes Jim Pickard
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