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BSkyB Bid: Simon Hughes Joins Calls For Jeremy Hunt To Face Inquiry

PA | Posted 26.06.2012 | UK Politics

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes has joined calls for an inquiry into whether Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt breached the ministerial code o...

Top Civil Servant 'Leaves Hunt Out To Dry' Over News Corp

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 26.04.2012 | UK Politics

Jeremy Hunt's top civil servant has refused to confirm the culture secretary's claim that he approved the decision to allow his special adviser to act...

Salmond Denies Murdoch Impropriety

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Politics

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond today denied any wrong-doing over the BSkyB takeover bid and insisted he would be "delighted" to appear before ...

Jeremy Hunt: This Is Not The Time To Jump On The Political Bandwagon

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK

The Culture Secretary faced the House of Commons on Wednesday to defend his conduct during News Corporation's takeover bid for BSkyB, rejecting calls...

Jeremy Hunt: This Is Not The Time To Jump On The Political Bandwagon

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Politics

The Culture Secretary faced the House of Commons on Wednesday to defend his conduct during News Corporation's takeover bid for BSkyB, rejecting calls ...

Jeremy Hunt Denied Chance To Give Leveson Evidence Early

Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Politics

Jeremy Hunt will not be allowed to give his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry sooner than planned, it has been suggested. On Tuesday the culture secr...

Rupert Murdoch To Give Evidence At Leveson Inquiry

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK

Rupert Murdoch is expected to reveal discussions with top British politicians when he gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on Wednesday. The 81-ye...

'Flurry Of Emails' Link Culture Secretary And BSkyB

Posted 24.04.2012 | UK

The close contacts between culture secretary Jeremy Hunt and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire over the company's controversial takeover bid for BSkyB...

Culture Secretary Refuses To Resign Over BSkyB Claims

Posted 24.04.2012 | UK Politics

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has defied Labour calls for his resignation following claims that he secretly backed News Corporation's bid to take over...

Jeremy Hunted: Culture Secretary Faces Wrath Of Twitter

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK

James Murdoch's star turn at the Leveson Inquiry today has brought to light a number of revelations, the most prominent being what looks like an uncom...

Under-Fire Sky News Accidentally Names Ched Evans Rape Victim

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 24.04.2012 | UK

Sky News has come under fire for revealing the name of the woman raped by Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans by accident in a live broadcast. T...

Time to Quit Whilst You're Still Ahead, M'Lord

Benjamin Lazarus | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK Entertainment
Benjamin Lazarus

Thus with declining ratings for The Apprentice, and an ever fading authority on his subject matter, perhaps it's high time that m'Lord quit whilst he's still ahead, since perhaps it'll be him who'll be "finished, gone, kaput" by next Christmas.

Sky News Admits To Hacking Emails

PA/Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 05.04.2012 | UK

Sky News has admitted it hacked email accounts belonging to members of the public, but has defended its actions as "responsible journalism", the BBC r...

Couldn't Hack It? Why Did Murdoch Step Down

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK

James Murdoch's decision to step down as the chairman of BSkyB will be seen as yet another sign that the family's grip on UK media is crumbling. An...

James Murdoch Stands Down As BSkyB Chairman

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK

James Murdoch stood down as chairman of broadcaster BSkyB on Tuesday amid an ongoing investigation into phone hacking at News International, saying he...

Ofcom Intensifies Murdoch 'Fit And Proper' Investigation

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK

An inquiry into whether James Murdoch and BSkyB are 'fit and proper' operators of a broadcasting licence has been stepped up by the media regulator Of...

Sky's March of Destiny

Sri Sritharan | Posted 07.05.2012 | UK Entertainment
Sri Sritharan

For Bart Simpson read Christina Hendricks; for Graham Gooch, Lewis Hamilton. Sky's halcyon days of the nineties are back like the ghost of a svelte Richard Keys. We're about to see if the March of 2012 buys them another twenty years to finally usurp all in British broadcasting.

'Apple Interested In Bidding For Premier League Football Rights' Reports Claim

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 04.03.2012 | UK Tech

Apple is rumoured to be interested in bidding for the rights to broadcast live Premier League football matches. The Daily Mail reported on Wednesda...

Brussels Makes a Move

John Carr | Posted 04.02.2012 | UK Tech
John Carr

Neelie Kroes is a Vice President of the European Commission. She is responsible for the European Union's ambitious Digital Agenda. Robert Madelin is h...

Pictures Of The Day: Dragons, Sperm Whales And Surfing

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 29.11.2011 | UK

Protests in London today ranged from anti-foie gras to anti-Murdoch, while Germany saw turning points in the lives of a sperm whale and in Sydney, 'Ho...

James Murdoch Reappointed As BSkyB Director

PA | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK Politics

James Murdoch has been reappointed as a director of BSkyB at the company's annual general meeting. Provisional figures announced at the meeting in ...

BSkyB Shareholders To Demand Murdoch Resignation

PA | Posted 28.01.2012 | UK

James Murdoch will face calls to resign as chairman of BSkyB at the satellite broadcaster's annual meeting amid fears his links to the phone hack...

Will Abu Dhabi Become a World Capital in Media - or Go Down in Flames?

Colin Morrison | Posted 09.01.2012 | Home
Colin Morrison

Think of how much you knew about Abu Dhabi before the Formula One Grand Prix (happening again this weekend) hit the stunning Yas island circuit. Or before the ruling family injected hundreds of millions into the UK's championship-chasing Manchester City football club. Or before Rupert Murdoch, Google's Eric Schmidt and others bowled up at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.

Leveson Inquiry: Full List Of Invited Audience

Posted 05.12.2011 | UK

It reads like a Who’s Who list of the newspaper industry. This is the full list of invited audience for the first of the Leveson Inquiry seminars on...

Pub Landlady Wins Premier League Court Case

The Independent | Posted 03.12.2011 | UK

Pub landlady Karen Murphy has won her European court battle against the Premier League over the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen games....