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British ministers backed Murdoch takeover: inquiry

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LONDON - British cabinet ministers worked behind the scenes to support James Murdoch's bid to take over a pay-TV company, a public inquiry heard on Thursday, adding weight to opposition criticism of the government's ties to powerful media barons.

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British PM's former aide charged with perjury

LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spokesman was charged with perjury on Wednesday, after denying in court any knowledge of widespread phone hacking by reporters at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

30 May 2012

UK politicians "bowed" before Murdoch: deputy PM

LONDON - Britain's political class competed to "bow and scrape" before media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Tuesday, in comments aimed at setting his Liberal Democrats apart from the country's two other main parties.

28 May 2012

Murdoch private eye targeted U.S. hedge fund boss

- A private detective working for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers used a legally questionable tactic to obtain a hotel bill that a New York financier ran up at one of London's swankest hotels, records reviewed by Reuters show.

World, 25 May 2012

UK appointed pro-Murdoch minister to News Corp Bid

LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron gave the job of ruling on a multi-billion dollar takeover by News Corp to a minister he knew supported the deal, an inquiry heard on Thursday, reigniting accusations he was in hock to Rupert Murdoch.

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News Corp out of race for Turkey's ATV TV-sources

ISTANBUL, May 24 - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has dropped out of the race to buy ATV television from Turkish group Calik Holding, but Time Warner Inc and Dubai-based Abraaj Capital remain interested in bidding, sources close to the process have told Reuters.

Stocks, M&A, Markets, Cyclical Consumer Goods, Media, 24 May 2012

Murdoch denies planning to spin off UK newspapers

LONDON - Rupert Murdoch has denied reports that News Corp is considering spinning off its British newspapers to protect the rest of his media empire from a phone hacking scandal.

19 May 2012

Murdoch denies planning to spin off UK newspapers

LONDON, May 19 - Rupert Murdoch has denied reports that News Corp is considering spinning off its British newspapers to protect the rest of his media empire from a phone hacking scandal.

Stocks, M&A, Markets, Cyclical Consumer Goods, Media 19 May 2012

Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal

LONDON - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into "a Faustian bargain" with the powerful, a former editor of the UK's Times newspaper said on Thursday.

World, 17 May 2012

Former editor says Murdoch sowed seeds of hacking scandal

LONDON, May 18 - Rupert Murdoch sowed the seeds of the phone hacking scandal that has tarnished his reputation by forcing Britain's most respected newspapers into "a Faustian bargain" with the powerful, a former editor of the UK's Times newspaper said on Thursday.

Stocks, Markets, Cyclical Consumer Goods, Media 17 May 2012

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Then-chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, arrives at Rupert Murdoch's flat in central London in a July 10, 2011 file photo. Police have arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News Corp's British newspaper arm News International, Sky News reported on July 17, 2011. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/files

Inside Brooks's News of the World

LONDON - "It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again." That's how one former reporter describes the News of the World newsroom under editor Rebekah Brooks, the ferociously ambitious executive who ran the Sunday tabloid from 2000 to 2003.  Full Article