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So why did UK PM David Cameron send all those text messages to former News boss Rebekah Brooks?

So why did UK PM David Cameron send all those text messages to former News boss Rebekah Brooks?

By Stephen Foster on May 10, 2012

That’s what we all want to find out from the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics tomorrow (Friday) when former News of the World and Sun editor, and latterly CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper operation News International, Rebekah Brooks takes the stand. How do we know Dave sent all these text messages, and that Rebekah [...]

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UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is clinging to his job, will Rupert Murdoch puts the skids under PM David Cameron?

UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is clinging to his job, will Rupert Murdoch puts the skids under PM David Cameron?

By Stephen Foster on April 24, 2012

Former News International boss James Murdoch was up before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics today and, while James escaped pretty well unscathed (in part due to his professed reluctance to read evening emails revealing phone hacking on a grand scale at the News of the World) he’s left the coalition government reeling. Culture, media [...]

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In Britain the Sun comes out every day - really

In Britain the Sun comes out every day – really

By Stephen Foster on February 22, 2012

Well there’s a line and a half for you but this is the one Rupert Murdoch and News International hope will persuade about two and a half million people to buy the Sun – not ‘The Sun on Sunday’ it would appear – on Sunday. That’s the number of readers supposedly up for grabs as [...]

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Murdoch opens his DIY Sunday newspaper kit

Murdoch opens his DIY Sunday newspaper kit

By Stephen Foster on February 20, 2012

The ‘will it happen, won’t it happen’ debate over Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun on Sunday has been abruptly ended by the great man – it’s going to arrive this Sunday February 26th and he’s going to be in charge. Rupert has always enjoyed inky fingers (in moderation), spending time as a very young man as [...]

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Murdoch says it's to be The Sun on Sunday - did old mate Martin Sorrell have anything to do with this?

Murdoch says it’s to be The Sun on Sunday – did old mate Martin Sorrell have anything to do with this?

By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012

Well I only ask because: Rupert Murdoch’s statement today that he backs the Sun, wants to be bring back all the suspended (and arrested) journalists and still wants to launch The Sun on Sunday (‘in the near future”) flies in the face of all known reason. As my colleague Stuart Smith has pointed out, the [...]

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D-Day for Murdoch as he tells Sun journalists we're not going to close the paper

D-Day for Murdoch as he tells Sun journalists we’re not going to close the paper

By Stephen Foster on February 17, 2012

News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch is due to appear in the Sun’s London newsroom today to reassure them that he won’t sell them down the river (the Thames flows nearby) in the wake of a number of arrests of senior Sun journalists suspected of paying police officers and other official types. The trouble is, he [...]

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UK's celeb phone hacking 'victims' walk away with Rupert Murdoch's money

UK’s celeb phone hacking ‘victims’ walk away with Rupert Murdoch’s money

By Stephen Foster on January 19, 2012

Money talks and News Corporation’s money clearly talks louder than most as most of the people who brought cases against the company for phone hacking seem to be settling for the company’s money (far less than those smart cookies Gordon Taylor of the PFA and PR man Max Clifford settled for) rather than taking their [...]

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Express owner Richard Desmond skewered by Leveson Inquiry over treatment of McCann family

Express owner Richard Desmond skewered by Leveson Inquiry over treatment of McCann family

By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2012

It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even tells the Inquiry’s probing lead counsel Robert Jay that he doesn’t understand what the word [...]

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Former News of the World editor Myler steps up Murdoch feud with move to rival New York Post

Former News of the World editor Myler steps up Murdoch feud with move to rival New York Post

By Stephen Foster on January 5, 2012

It must have been a big decision for former News of the World editor Colin Myler (he was in charge when Rupert Murdoch closed the paper at the height of the phone hacking scandal) when he chose, along with former legal manager Tom Krone, to challenge James Murdoch’s recollection of the notorious ‘for Neville’ phone [...]

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Did he or didn't he? James Murdoch's future depends on whether he read 'for Neville' email

Did he or didn’t he? James Murdoch’s future depends on whether he read ‘for Neville’ email

By Staff on December 14, 2011

The notorious ‘for Neville’ email circulating at the News of the World in 2008 holds the key to the future of James Murdoch at News Corporation and, very likely, at UK pay-TV operator BSKyB which is 39 per cent owned by News Corp. The email, sent to the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville [...]

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