LONDON (AP) - Britain's prosecutors say The Sun tabloid's politics editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds (dollars) worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British government's tax department.

On the media conglomerate's quarterly earnings call Wednesday, Carey sounded a bit more circumspect when asked about that possibility by an analyst.

(Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O) will receive $139 million worth of insurance proceeds in a rare cash settlement that resolves a lawsuit by shareholders alleging the board failed to investigate the company's phone hacking scandal.

News Corp. headquarters in New York Getty Images Media giant News Corp (NWS) posted sharply higher earnings, led by strong growth at its Fox television division.

Current News Corp. shareholders will get shares in each company, but how many shares and how much each entity will be worth have yet to be announced.

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The fund's largest holding is in media giant News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA). Egerton Capital is the 17th biggest institutional investor in News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) The holdings expanded by 2,615,344 during the quarter reaching 20,186,722 in total by the ...

News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWSA) is expected to report slightly lower fiscal third-quarter profits Wednesday despite higher revenue as Sky Italia continued to struggle with a subscriber exodus and the Fox Broadcasting Company took a hit from ratings weakness ...

All four pleaded guilty to taking part in denial-of-service attacks against Sony, News Corp., Nintendo, the CIA and other sites, however they denied posting personal information.