More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…

If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.

News International said it had settled seven privacy claims against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…

Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent more for 2013-16 Premier League rights when negotiations begin next summer, an analyst says.

James Murdoch has suddenly found an e-mail which alerted him to phone hacking at News International - despite having previously blamed two of his executives for not giving him such information. He simply didn’t read his BlackBerry fully, he says.

“We confess ourselves slightly perplexed,” BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) finance chief Andrew Griffith told Wall Street investors, when asked about the Competition Commission’s judgement that Sky Movies is anti-competitive in the on-demand movie space.

After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation into whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.

BSkyB’s set-top boxes may have to offer services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Lovefilm and Blinkbox alongside its own Sky Movies, under new proposals from the Competition Commission.

—Bertelsmann: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music’s global digital head Thomas Hesse is leaving to join Bertelsmann in February, tasked with its digital transformation, MusicWeek writes. Hesse previously led digital at SonyBMG.

James Murdoch has been re-elected chairman of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) at the pay-TV and telco company’s annual general meeting, with 81.24 percent of the vote against 18.76.

The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the closure of the News of the World.

The former First Minister of Wales says he and his politician wife have been interviewed by the Metropolitan Police because her phone was hacked by News Of The World investigator Glen Mulcaire.

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is to appoint Matthieu Pigasse, controlling shareholder of Le Monde and the French edition of Huffington Post, and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert as independent board directors.

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video company has now added film studio Miramax to its list of content partners, joining Lionsgate and MGM in providing films for the service. But unlike the other…

BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) deputy chairman Nick Ferguson’s letter to investors explaining why James Murdoch should remain chairman of the broadcaster…

James Murdoch’s very ability as an executive was effectively put on trial Thursday, as UK MPs investigating the phone “hacking” scandal queued up to undermine his corporate competence.

James Murdoch said a trio of former News International executives had not briefed him fully enough, during his second questioning by MPs on Thursday, as he repeated and amplified his earlier assertion that he was unaware phone “hacking”’ was widespread at the News Of The World.

The stakes are getting higher for News Corp.‘s international CEO, as the phone “hacking” scandal resurfaces this week…