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Endgame of Murdoch Empire?

2 top deputies resign + eventually forced to apologize + successor's capability doubted + going beyond just Europe towards US = how will Murdoch deal with all the mess? Is this just the beginning of the end of the House of Murdoch? Or, even the whole media empire will be shaken?....

Murdoch begins series of apologies in phone-hacking scandal

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“We are sorry,” Rupert Murdoch said in British newspapers on Saturday, as he tried to quell the uproar over a phone-hacking scandal that has claimed his top two newspaper executives and put pressure on police and politicians.

In full-page adverts, News Corp (NWSA.O) owner Murdoch pledged “concrete steps” to resolve the issue in a bid to regain the initiative after losing Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and Rebekah Brooks, head of News Corp’s UK newspaper arm News International, on Friday.

“For a business that prides itself on holding the powerful to account, we failed when it came to one of our papers. Apologising for our mistakes and fixing them are only the first steps,” News International said in newspaper adverts on Sunday.

Unlike apologies published on Saturday, Sunday’s were not signed by Murdoch but all were a rare show of contrition for a Murdoch business. Sunday’s apology included a pledge to cooperate with police.

2 Top Deputies Resign as Crisis Isolates Murdoch

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The crisis rattling Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire claimed the two highest-level executives yet on Friday after days of mounting pressure from politicians and investors on two continents.

Les Hinton, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal since 2007, who oversaw Mr. Murdoch’s British newspaper subsidiary when voice mail hacking by journalists was rampant, and Rebekah Brooks, who has run the British papers since 2009 and become the target of unrelenting public outrage, both resigned in the latest blow to the News Corporation and its besieged chairman.

Ms. Brooks, who was editor of The News of the World when the abuses began in 2002, repeatedly told the Murdochs that she knew nothing of the hacking and that she would be exonerated when all the facts came out.

In her farewell message, Ms. Brooks acknowledged that she had become a distraction. “The reputation of the company we love so much, as well as the press freedoms we value so highly, are all at risk,” she wrote. “As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place.”

Letting Mr. Hinton go was an especially fraught decision for Mr. Murdoch. The two had worked together for 52 years, since Mr. Hinton joined Mr. Murdoch’s first paper, The News of Adelaide in South Australia, when he was 15. Moreover, Mr. Hinton ran The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Murdoch’s most cherished American newspaper.

In a note to his employees, Mr. Hinton said Friday was “a deeply, deeply sad day for me.”
Ms. Brooks said she would focus on “correcting the distortions and rebutting the allegations” against the company and herself, and would cooperate with the police inquiry into phone hacking and payments to corrupt police officers. She also praised Mr. Murdoch’s “wisdom, kindness and incisive advice” and his son James’s “great loyalty and friendship.”

“They’re still brother and sister,” this person said. “They just play in this big world. It’s a sibling rivalry kind of thing, but it’s still blood. And they both know the company is their fortune.”

Furore casts doubt on succession

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Disappointed father

UK phone hacking scandal James Murdoch was expected to resolve when he became chairman of News Corp Europe and Asia in 2007 has blown up, raising questions about his crisis management skills.

That crisis touched him directly last week, when he admitted that he had wrongly approved settlements with hacking victims without having “a complete picture” of the facts. Tom Watson, a Labour MP, dubbed the payments “an attempt to pervert the course of justice”.

The 38-year-old is yet to tell MPs whether he will appear before a parliamentary committee next week. But whether any liability might flow from his 2008 decision to approve the settlements remains unclear. “James has never edited a paper in his life,” one person close to him notes.

James, known for his quick temper but respected for expanding BSkyB in four years as its chief executive, had been groomed for the succession since Lachlan, his elder brother, gave up his executive duties in 2005.

Is This the Beginning of the End of the House of Murdoch?

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When Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on July 10, his over-riding imperative was to shore up his bid to take control of the lucrative satellite broadcaster BSkyB and contain the political and legal firestorm that was threatening to engulf the British arm of his media empire in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. Four days later, that strategy was in tatters, despite such radical moves such as shutting down his hugely successful News of the World tabloid and conceding that BSkyB bid would be open to investigation by industry regulators. Indeed, the future of the Murdoch empire now looks hugely uncertain.

First came signs the hacking scandal was about to cross the Atlantic to lap at the shores of his U.S. operations, then it emerged he was almost certain to be summoned before a judicial inquiry in Britain to answer for his journalists' alleged crimes and finally, moments before the British parliament was set to approve an opposition party motion demanding he abandon the BSkyB bid — the centerpiece of his European media strategy and a long-cherished ambition — Murdoch executed a humiliating about face and withdrew the bid.

To make matters even more dire, Ofcom, the British communications industry regulator, is considering whether Murdoch is a "fit and proper" person to continue owning his existing 39% share of BSkyB. If it decides he is not, it would be another massive blow.

But the bad news for Murdoch and his empire was not confined to the U.K. and, for the first time, spread to the U.S. with Senator Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, calling for an investigation into claims 9/11 victims may have been targeted for hacking by Murdoch's other tabloid, the News of the World. The claims were carried in the News of the World's major tabloid rival, the Mirror, and were raised in parliament by Labour member Tom Watson, who has been leading the political campaign to reveal the full extent of the hacking scandal.

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