Fox News may be the next News Corp affiliate to be implemented in the Rupert Murdoch hacking scandal.

Senior Australian officials have expressed concern over allegations that News Corporation engaged in hacking and piracy in order to damage its commercial television competitors.

British authorities arrested eight people on Saturday, including five employees of Rupert Murdoch‘s tabloid The Sun, as part of an investigation into bribery of public officials by journalists, according to Scotland Yard and the newspaper’s parent company.

A small number of journalists have disgraced Britain's press, Tony Blair's former communications chief told a media ethics inquiry, as a former government minister said detectives were investigating whether his computers had been hacked by a tabloid newspaper.

A 31-year-old woman has been arrested as part of the investigation into voice mail hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World, police officials said Wednesday.

(Reuters) - Here is a timeline of the major events in the British phone-hacking scandal since July:

Parliament’s remarkable three-hour hearing on July 19, focusing on the role of Rupert Murdoch and top News International executives in the immense phone-hacking scandal, proved an epic Westminster moment.

There is only one news story in England this summer. The mushrooming scandal about the conduct of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, the original cornerstone of his worldwide media empire, closed down England's largest circulation newspaper and permanently resides on the front page of all others.

Media baron Rupert Murdoch says embattled executive Rebekah Brooks will continue to lead his company in Britain despite calls for her resignation amid a burgeoning tabloid phone hacking scandal.

Thanks to Murdoch's recent laundry list of public falsehoods, we now know that Fox News' misinformation culture starts at the very top. Murdoch functions as his own one-man misinformation machine, pretending (at least to himself) that ratings are up because of the sterling and insightful news reports and opinion programs Fox News is producing. He doesn't want to sully his reputation by acknowledging the hate speech and faux journalism he profits from.

In the media spectrum occupied by Fox News Channel and Fox Television, Murdoch operates through a public trust. Murdoch is using the common property of the United States to turn out mobs at town hall events for the purpose of intimidating members of Congress and spreading disinformation about what's in the health care bills. While media editorials often reflect the views of the owner, Murdoch uses his media empire as an organizing tool designed not only to affect several very particular pieces of legislation, but are concoc...