News Corp. names ex-Bloomberg exec. as Dow Jones CEO

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: bloomberg, dow jones & co, dow jones newswires, les hinton, lex fenwick, Michael Bloomberg, news corp, news corp phone hacking, phone-hacking scandal, tabloid, wall street journal

NEW YORK — News Corp. says Lex Fenwick, a Bloomberg LP executive, is the new CEO of Dow Jones & Co., the News Corp. subsidiary that publishes The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. Fenwick takes over a position left open in July, when Les Hinton resigned in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal [...]

Editor: Hacking might have occurred at 2nd tabloid

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 16, 2012
Tags: daily mirror, editor, hacking, london, rupert murdoch, scandal, tabloid

LONDON — The editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper told a media ethics inquiry Monday it is possible illegal phone hacking took place at the tabloid, which was edited for almost a decade by CNN celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan. The editor of sister title the Sunday Mirror told the same tribunal that she couldn’t be [...]

Ex-Murdoch lawyer defends newspapers surveillance

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 14, 2011
Tags: cell phone, hacking, lawyer, london, news corp, news international, rupert murdoch, tabloid, trial

LONDON — A former top lawyer for Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers insisted Wednesday that he told the mogul’s son there was evidence of widespread phone hacking at the now defunct News of The World tabloid. Tom Crone questioned claims made by James Murdoch — chairman of News International, the British arm of his father’s media [...]

List of claimants suing News of the World grows

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 6, 2011
Tags: claimants, court papers, hacked, high court, journalists, jude law, news of the world, paul gascoigne, plaintiffs, rupert murdoch, sheila henry, tabloid, tamsin allen

LONDON — More than 60 people have filed court papers alleging their phones were hacked by the News of the World, a lawyer said Thursday, amid preparations for a group lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct tabloid. The claimants include movie stars, politicians and parents of two child victims of horrific violent crimes. Lawyer Tamsin Allen, [...]