Rupert Murdoch Flying To London After Eight More Arrested In Tabloid Bribery Scandal
DAVID STRINGER 02/11/12 05:45 PM ET
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LONDON — Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at The Sun tabloid were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which owns the newspaper, said police had searched their homes and the group's London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing.
The Sun's deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker and reporter John Sturgis were those arrested, News International CEO Tom Mockridge said in a message emailed to staff.
Executives moved quickly to reject claims that Murdoch could decide to close down the newspaper. In July, he shuttered the 168-year-old News of The World tabloid amid public outrage when the extent of its phone hacking of celebrities, public figures and crime victims was exposed.
Mockridge said he had been given a "personal assurance today from Rupert Murdoch about his total commitment to continue to own and publish The Sun newspaper." Mockridge acknowledged that the tabloid and its employees were "facing our greatest challenge," but urged them not to prejudge the outcome of the police investigation.
(More here.)
AP
LONDON — Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at The Sun tabloid were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which owns the newspaper, said police had searched their homes and the group's London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing.
The Sun's deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker and reporter John Sturgis were those arrested, News International CEO Tom Mockridge said in a message emailed to staff.
Executives moved quickly to reject claims that Murdoch could decide to close down the newspaper. In July, he shuttered the 168-year-old News of The World tabloid amid public outrage when the extent of its phone hacking of celebrities, public figures and crime victims was exposed.
Mockridge said he had been given a "personal assurance today from Rupert Murdoch about his total commitment to continue to own and publish The Sun newspaper." Mockridge acknowledged that the tabloid and its employees were "facing our greatest challenge," but urged them not to prejudge the outcome of the police investigation.
(More here.)
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