This week, Rupert Murdoch will again fly to London to confront a crisis, after Saturday’s arrests of five journalists from The Sun newspaper over allegations of payments to the police and other officials widened the UK press corruption investigation.
This time, however, he will walk the floor of a hostile newsroom, where staff will ask whether he can contain a spreading scandal that is threatening to shake his wider empire.
This weekend, executives relayed the “personal assurance” of Mr Murdoch’s “total commitment” to the profitable and influential Sun and its editor, Dominic Mohan. But furious journalists wondered what Mr Murdoch’s assurance was worth as investigations rock old certainties about his control.