Sources: BBC
News Corp. completes a planned split into two companies, creating 21st Century Fox. 2013-06-28
As the Leveson Inquiry releases emails exchanged between UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt and News Corp.ration lobbyist Fred Michel, Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not regret his decision to let Hunt rule on News Corp.s bid for BSkyB. 2012-05-25
Tony Blair's former Director of Communications, Alastair Campbell, tells the Leveson Inquiry that there was no "express deal" between Blair and News Corp.ration CEO Rupert Murdoch in the run-up to the 1997 UK general election. 2012-05-14
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
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, makes a statement to the House of Commons in relation to the judicial inquiry into the "News of the World" phone hacking affair, hours before the announcement that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.ration had withdrawn its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB. 2011-07-13
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
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.ration agrees to sell Sky News in order to be in a position to buy BSkyB without a Competition Commission inquiry. 2011-03-2
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
News Corp.ration sells the "Fiji Times" to Fijian company Motibhai two weeks before a deadline set by the government of interim Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama. 2010-09-15