The hacking investigation that led to the shutdown of News of the World has spread to another News International newspaper, The Times,  police correspondence sent to campaigning MP Tom Watson shows. And its editor has been recalled to discuss it at the government’s hearings on media ethics.

I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for the weekend…

News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media - and the phone hacking scandal in which the company is embroiled may even have helped the effort.

News Corp could be laden with a multi-million pound UK compensation bill after agreeing to settle claims on the basis its executives tried to cover up and destroy evidence about tabloid phone hacking.

News Of The World’s closure deprived News International of data on which it could have based a decision to introduce digital fees at the UK’s most popular newspaper.

News International’s The Times may shed its social media invisibility cloak by letting subscribers gift paywalled articles to friends.

The UK’s highest-circulating newspaper may not yet be going ahead with web fees but it has introduced a subscription smartphone app, priced £4.99 ($7.65) a month.

Is The Sun about to put up an online paywall? Gordon MacMillan, social media editor at Haymarket, points to a clue that suggests - at least to him - that the paper’s publisher, News International, might well be heading in that direction.

When the CEO of News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch, joined Twitter a few days ago as an official, verified account, endorsed even by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, some people didn’t believe that it was really him (it is). Today came the followup that proves why seeing is not always believing:…

Last year, News International made The Times and The Sun newspapers free on Christmas and used the opportunity to promote their respective iPad apps to all those folks who got them as presents. This year, the UK publisher, owned by News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS), will give the same treatment to…

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.

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.

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) 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.