UK police under scrutiny as Murdoch tries to damp fire
Jul 16 2011
Rebekah Brooks quits
1 of 21. Police officers stand outside an entrance to News International in London July 10, 2011.
Financially, owning both high and low-brow publications makes sense -- although newspapers made up only 19 percent of News Corp's revenues of $32.8 billion in 2010.
LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business, mired in a widening scandal stemming from phone hacking, pledged Sunday to fully cooperate with inquiries by police, who themselves are under mounting pressure for being too close to his media empire.
Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor
Mohammed Abbas
LONDON
Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:17pm EDT
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/17/us-newscorp-hacking-idUSTRE7641IO20110717