Shareholders of News Corporation who are tempted to attend the company’s annual meeting later this week in Los Angeles might well be asking themselves: what’s the point?

News Corp has stopped stonewalling about The Daily‘s circulation following reports from Bloomberg that the tablet tabloid had 120,000 weekly uniques and from paidContent that nearly two-thirds of those were paying subs. Publisher Greg Clayman now tells AdAge the actual number is 80,000.

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…

Losing a $27 million contract won’t hit the News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) bottom line but the New York state comptroller’s rejection of a contract with a small subsidiary is a blow to Rupert Murdoch’s nascent education plans and a sign of the way the News of the World hacking scandal…

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…

When Jonathan May-Bowles – a.k.a. activist-comedian Jonnie Marbles – tipped a foam-pie over Rupert Murdoch, oh how we scorned him. “He’s turned Murdoch into the victim!” we bawled, or at least I did, anyway. In hindsight, it seems the real victim was Marbles himself. The father-of-one was sentenced to six…

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…

The Guardian is the latest news outlet to get into e-singles publishing with “Guardian Shorts,” a series of “detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events” for sale on iTunes and Kindle. Several e-singles will be published each month. Not surprisingly, the first title in the…

Another News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). tabloid is making news today and this time it has nothing to do with Parliament or police. The Daily is out with a new edition that erases some of the biggest complaints about the iPad tab, sending users to the cover instead of a carousel,…

Remember that independent panel that was supposed to safeguard the integrity of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal after the acquisition by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). in late 2007? Thanks to the UK hacking scandal, they’re back in the spotlight for what I think is the first…

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…

On a day when Rupert Murdoch defiantly testified that he had no intentions of resigning as CEO of News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), the company’s nine independent directors are out with a statement that they are “united in support of the senior management team to address these issues.” No mention of…

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…

The Murdochs’ appearance before MPs for a grilling about the phone-hacking scandal was brought to a dramatic halt after an activist attempted to hit Rupert Murdoch in the face with a paper plate covered in shaving foam. Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng, who was sitting behind her husband in the culture,…

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…

How did the Wall Street Journal, led by Rupert Murdoch’s hand-picked Managing Editor Robert Thomson, follow up on the resignation of its publisher and the arrest of former top News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). exec Rebekah Brooks? With some standard news stories—and a flame-throwing editorial the Journal hopes will singe critics…

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…