James Murdoch’s final plea to MPs who may decide his future soon
“I can’t remember when select committees have held such potential sway over such a high-profile international business career.”
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James Murdoch resigns as chairman of BSkyB, saying he does not want to become a “lightning rod” for the company because of ongoing investigations into News International.
“I can’t remember when select committees have held such potential sway over such a high-profile international business career.”
Rupert Murdoch’s son resigns from News International, publisher of the Sun and the former News of the World – but it will make “no difference” to investigations into the paper, Channel 4 News hears.
James Murdoch resigns as director of the companies which publish the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.
“The big question is: how much did James Murdoch know back in 2008? Did he try to buy Mr Taylor’s silence in a bid to stop the whole story coming out?”
As more allegations about phone-hacking at News International emerge, James Murdoch prepares to explain himself for a second time to a Commons select committee.
Could the Murdoch dynasty survive after all? Krishnan Guru-Murthy blogs on James Murdoch and the phone-hacking scandal.
The former News of the World legal manager tells MPs he is “certain” he told James Murdoch about an email which proved that knowledge of phone-hacking went beyond one rogue reporter.
News Corp CEO James Murdoch has insisted to MPs that he was truthful when he answered questions in Parliament about the phone-hacking scandal.
An influential investor in BSkyB tells our Business Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy that an increasing number of shareholders are calling for James Murdoch to step down as the company’s chairman.
Rupert Murdoch is to step down as chief executive of 21st Century Fox, reports say, citing sources close to the Murdoch family.
“Incompetent” police, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch’s real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire.
Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi. She famously intervened when the media mogul was attacked with a foam pie.
As Elisabeth Murdoch prepares to address the Edinburgh International Television Festival, a leading media commentator speculates that there may soon be no Murdochs at the top of the family business.
Sir John Major tells the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch instructed him before the 1997 election that his newspapers would not back him unless he changed his policies on Europe.