By Steve Huff 4/23/12 2:31am

Phone Hacks

Rupert Murdoch.

Rupert Murdoch To Testify Again in Phone-Hacking-Related Hearings in U.K.

News Corp shogun and avid tweeter Rupert Murdoch will be in the hot seat again this week, testifying under oath in the United Kingdom’s “Leveson Inquiry” into press practices. The 81-year-old billionaire will face new questions regarding phone-hacking and his and his company’s relationship with U.K. political figures.

Mr. Murdoch’s son James, age 39, will answer questions in the same hearing Tuesday and the elder Mr. Murdoch is expected to appear Wednesday and Thursday. Read More

By Matt Chaban 8/02/11 8:48pm

The Transom

Call me. (Sox First

Telephonies, or Have You Been Phone Hacked?

If you live Uptown, odds are, you have not been phone hacked. The scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., half of Britain and CNN star Piers Morgan has yet to have much of an impact in New York other than that felt by the firing of a few New York-based News Corp. executives Read More

By The Editors 7/19/11 7:33pm

opinion

Murdoch and His Critics

Regarding the scandal that has roiled Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire, a few things seem clear. The phone-hacking scandal in London is deplorable. Journalists have violated the privacy of ordinary citizens and, it is alleged, the law of the land in the United Kingdom. Tabloid reporters from the now-shuttered News of the World showed a Read More