Pressure on News Corp over its phone hacking scandal is rising on three continents with fresh legal and political challenges.
James Murdoch, the media group’s deputy chief operating officer and son of its chief executive Rupert, was on Tuesday recalled to a UK parliamentary committee to clear up accusations that he may have misled MPs. The recall came as thousands more documents relating to the phone hacking scandal emerged.
US investors also expanded a class action against his father Rupert’s media group claiming it had a “historic pattern of corruption”. And the Australian government prepared plans for an independent inquiry into media standards and regulation.