Investors in News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch’s media company, were urged on Tuesday to vote against the re-election of his son James Murdoch as a company director by an influential advisory group.

One of James Murdoch’s closest advisers has resigned from News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), it emerged on Tuesday, amid disagreements over the way the media group dealt with the phone-hacking scandal.

The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) board will look a little different after the company’s Oct. 21 annual shareholders meeting but, so far, not when it comes to anyone named Murdoch. Two longtime directors are leaving the board, which has been criticized for being too stacked with directors who have ties…

It looks increasingly likely that James Murdoch will make a return trip to Westminster to testify before the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport. The News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) deputy COO hoped to avoid that by replying in writing to questions following his July 19 testimony…

The House of Commons Select Committee investigating widespread hacking at News of the World and a host of potential ripple effects, including a possible coverup by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), did one heck of a data dump today. In one fell swoop (and a lot of pdfs), the committee published…

Some in the media expected the first News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) earnings call after July’s explosive hacking scandal—and the closure of “News of the World”—to focus on just that. Analysts had different ideas—then the media got a very limited turn at bat. Some of the best fun was watching the…

James Murdoch is likely to remain chairman of satellite company BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) after winning the support of the leading independent director ahead of a crunch meeting later this week. Nicholas Ferguson, Sky’s deputy chairman, is understood to have given Murdoch his backing after a “long conversation” in a private…

James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News International executives accused him of misleading parliament.

James Murdoch has been accused of giving incorrect information to the parliamentary select committee hearing on phone hacking about a six-figure out-of-court settlement News International made with footballers’ union boss Gordon Taylor. In a brief but potentially highly damaging broadside, two former News of the World senior executives claimed the…

After the Murdochs Rupert and James had their grilling by the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Media and Sport yesterday, with their tense appearance punctured near the end with that pie incident, it was almost anticlimactic when Rebekah Brooks took to the stage as the closing act for the day. Alternating…

While the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport spent more than four hours grilling Rupert and James Murdoch, and later Rebecca Brooks, on the phone hacking scandal at News International—and making very little headway in the stonewalling responses from the executives—another group, the Home Affairs Committee, was gearing up…

What, you weren’t glued to the TV or Twitter for the hours of testimony given by Rupert and James Murdoch and their former News International chief exec Rebekah Brooks in front of Parliament? The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). chairman and CEO and his son, the deputy COO responsible for troubled…

Before MPs kicked off their phone hacking questions for James and Rupert Murdoch today, James asked John Whittingdale, the chair of the Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, if he could read out a statement—another apology. Whittingdale wouldn’t let him, but News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) has mailed it out…

Just in case you haven’t heard, the UK’s Commons Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has managed to corral three of the key executives that were leading News Corporation, and its UK newspaper subsidiary News International, during one of the bigger scandals—full of illegal activities and corridors-of-power-intrigue—alleged to have occurred…

Up to now, the British pay-TV operator BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) has continued to endorse James Murdoch as its chairman—despite the abandoned bid from News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) and the many problems that have beset the executive in the wake of the hacking scandal at News International. But that could change…

If you felt a small earthquake just now, it was the tectonic plates of press and power moving in the UK. Rebekah Brooks, who resigned just Friday as chief executive of News International, the UK publishing unit of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), was arrested today by Scotland Yard in a…

Less than a week before he testifies before a committee of Parliament, Rupert Murdoch tested his speaking skills on the growing scandal affecting News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). in an interview with his own Wall Street Journal—choosing to respond to queries about the status of son James himself rather than through…

News Corp today walked away from its bid to buy out all shares in UK broadcaster BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), but one of its most senior executives will continue to have a role there. Sources at BSkyB say that James Murdoch, the co-COO of News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). will stay on…

Dear Rupert Murdoch: cc: James Murdoch News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). has good reason to try to make digital subscriptions work. I may not like all of the efforts; I don’t have to as long as enough paying readers do. But all should have one thing in common as of now:…