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The former chief reporter for News Corp.'s (NWS, NWS.AU) U.K. tabloid The Sun pleaded not guilty at London's central criminal court Friday to a charge of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.Separately, a public official the court said could not be publicly named pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.Both charges sprang from Operation Elveden, a police investigation into allegations that journalists were bribing public officials for information. The investigation is part of a wider police probe into alleged illegal reporting tactics at News Corp.'s U.K. newspapers.News Corp. has said it is cooperating with the police investigations.British prosecutors in November said the conspiracy charge against the Sun's former chief reporter, John Kay, related to 100,000 pounds ($150,000) in bribes allegedly paid by the Sun to a Defense Ministry official in exchange for information that "formed the basis of a series of news stories."Two former to...
Police in the U.K. have reportedly arrested former News Corp . (NASDAQ:NWSA) exec Rebekah Brooks and a number of other people as part of a phone-hacking probe.Accord...
By Peter LauriaNEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's senior management is starting to think about what the company might do if James Murdoch stepped aside, sources inside...
Rupert Murdoch, unperturbed by a foam pie attack in Britain's parliament, apologized on Tuesday for the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his empire but said h...
News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch wrapped up three hours of testimony before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday by stressing how...
British Prime Minister David Cameron sought to distance himself from the resignation of the country's most senior policeman Monday, saying the London force's role in...
By Keith Weir and Peter GriffithsLONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron defended his handling on Monday of a corruption scandal around Rupert Murdoch's media empire which ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday following criticism of the handling by police of a phone hacking scandal that ...
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business, was arrested on Sunday in the latest twist of a phone-hacking scandal that has tainted Bri...
LONDON (Reuters) - Police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm News International, Sky News reported on Sund...
News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) announced Friday that the former chairman of its News International division, Les Hinton, has resigned from his post as the chief executive ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch's most senior newspaper executive in Britain, has resigned as chief executive of News International, the British su...
LONDON (Reuters) - Ex-News Corp executive Rebekah Brooks will give her full cooperation to British government and police inquiries and a parliamentary hearing schedu...
British prosecutors said they are charging a former police officer and a journalist from News Corp.'s (NWSA, NWS.AU) tabloid the Sun with crimes as part of a wide-ra...
Former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks received a pay-off totaling more than 7 million pounds ($11.24 million) following her resignation from Rupert Murdoch's Bri...
Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International, and Andy Coulson, British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-communications chief, will stand trial to face all...
U.K. authorities plan to formally charge eight former employees of News Corp. with conspiring to intercept communications, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ...
British stocks on Tuesday extended the prior session's sharp drop, amid new concerns over what a Greece exit from the euro zone could mean for the markets.The FTSE 1...
U.K. stocks dipped on Tuesday, extending the prior session's sharp drop, amid freshened concerns over what a Greece exit from the euro zone could mean for the market...
Former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks has been arrested for a second time in connection with the phone-hacking scandal that rocked the News Corp ....
