Sources: BBC
"The Wall Street Journal" reports that the board of News Corp.ration has agreed to split the company into two businesses for publishing and entertainment. 2012-06-28
News Corp.ration lobbyist Fred Michel tells the Leveson Inquiry there was nothing inappropriate in his relationship with Adam Smith, a special adviser to UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt. Smith later tells the hearing Hunt sent a memorandum to Prime Minister David Cameron in which he said he was in favour of News Corp.s bid to take control of BSkyB before he was given a key role in the process. 2012-05-24
News International phone hacking scandal: The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee publishes its report into phone hacking at the "News of the World". The committee concludes that Rupert Murdoch "is not a fit person" to run a major international company and exhibited "wilful blindness" to phone-hacking and other practices going on in his media empire. The report also accuses three News Corp.ration executives of giving misleading evidence. 2012-05-1
Adam Smith, a special adviser to Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, resigns over his role in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.ration's attempt to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB. 2012-04-25
The BBC's "Panorama" alleges that a company owned by News Corp.ration recruited a pay-TV "pirate" to hack a rival's secret codes then post the details online. 2012-03-26
MSNBC reports that the United States Department of Justice is investigating claims that News Corp.ration's advertising arm repeatedly hacked into the computers of competitors. 2011-07-21
British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt refers News Corp.ration's bid to take full control of BSkyB to the Competition Commission. 2011-07-11
News Corp.ration, the third largest media company in the world, gets approval to buy out British Sky Broadcasting, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom, for $12.7 billion. 2011-03-3
Giant media conglomerate News Corp. says it will launch a digital newspaper as content of Apple's iPad, on 2 February. This is a later launch date than many had expected. 2011-01-27
United Kingdom - Business Secretary Vince Cable orders Ofcom to investigate News Corp.ration's plan to take full control of BSkyB. 2010-11-4