James Murdoch can breathe a little easier, if Parliament’s conclusion about his and former employees’ roles in phone-hacking plays out the way the Guardian predicted Friday. While Murdoch’s MP inquisitors seem inclined to believe the News International deputy COO’s assertions that he was never informed of the full extent of what had been taking place at News of the World, the paper’s former lawyer Tom Crone and former Editor Colin Myler aren’t likely to get off as easily. Both Crone and Myler are expected to be censured by the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee for failure to disclose all the evidence they were aware of at previous hearings. Murdoch has consistently maintained that Crone, Myler and Les Hinton, among others, never apprised him of the full extent of phone-hacking, for which MPs will at worst characterize the News Corp deputy COO as spectacularly ill-informed.
Following Murdoch’s emergence from Thursday’s second Parliamentary grilling relatively unscathed, the board of British Sky Broadcasting on Friday expressed confidence in his continued performance as chairman of the satellite broadcaster. ’
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UK Hacking Case: News Corp Was Paying Former Editor While He Held Political Post
Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World arrested on suspicion of involvement in phone hacking and bribing the police, was receiving payments from News International after starting work as the Conservative Party’s Director of Communications, the BBC reports. Coulson’s received hundreds of thousands of dollars in severance payments until the end of 2007, which means he continued to be financially linked to the UK division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for several months during his tenure as David Cameron’s main media adviser, the BBC reports. The Conservative and Labor parties traditionally battle for the endorsement of Murdoch’s papers.
Rupert Compensated $22.7M For FY 2010; At News Corp It's All In The Murdoch Family
UPDATE: The 79-year-old News Corp chairman’s basic salary remains unchanged at $8.1 million, according to the latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal year 2010 ending June 30th. But his performance-related bonus fell 20% to $4.4 million. Murdoch’s stock and share options last year stayed the same at $4.1 million. And, sure, there was $275,117 worth of personal use of the News Corp corporate jet. Murdoch received total compensation valued at $22.7 million for the fiscal year 2010. Murdoch still controls 317 million Class B voting shares and 8.8 million Class A non-voting shares in News Corp; together that’s worth $4.58 billion as of yesterday.
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So What's Ben Silverman Up To Now?
It’s not my intention to keep writing regularly about Ben Silverman now that’s he’s exited NBC Universal for IAC. But it’s hard to ignore that Ben is now trying to hire back two execs from his old Reveille (presently part of Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine) — Howard Owens and Mark Koops. However, no one in TV [...]
Variety Wrongs Fox Reality's David Lyle Who Accuses Trade Of "Making Stories Up"
Variety recently reported that Fox Reality topper David Lyle had quit to return to FremantleMedia (which he left in 2004), running its Australian operation and replacing brothers Mark and Carl Fennessy who quit in April to run Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Australia. Just one problem: it wasn’t true. Even though other media outlets picked up the [...]