The joint venture, to be known as Penguin Random House, will be the leading publisher of English-language books but could late interest from Rupert Murdoch scupper the deal?
The British parliament’s commissioner for standards has opened an inquiry into allegations Jeremy Hunt failed to register donations from media companies.
Public figures including Hugh Grant, JK Rowling and Sienna Miller are to appear alongside other alleged phone hacking victims including Madeleine McCann’s father.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and sons will likely face the ire of shareholders angry over the company’s association with the phone hacking scandal in the UK.
London police employed Alex Marunchak as an interpretator for the service between 1980 and 2000 – while he was still working for the News of the World.
The first News of the World journalist to bring allegations of phone hacking at the newspaper into the public domain has been found dead. Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
A group of News Corporation shareholders are suing the media conglomerate over what they claim are large-scale governance failures surrounding the British phone-hacking case.
THE LATEST FRONT in the streaming wars has seen fantasy fans spoiled for choice as House of The Dragon battles with The Rings of Power for eyeballs and subscription money.
The Game of Thrones prequel was created for the HBO platform (it’s available on Sky and Now TV in Ireland) while its Lord of The Rings counterpart is an Amazon Prime production.
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The demise of satellite television looks confirmed with Sky announcing this week that it will start offering most of its services via a set-top streaming box.
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