News Corp. Workers Pay Price for U.K. Checkbook Reporting
Posted: 9/11/2012 | By: Erik Larson | Bloomberg
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s
best-selling Sun tabloid in Britain are paying for a culture of bribery
that may have been an industry standard until scrutiny from News Corp. (NWSA)’s phone-hacking scandal put an end to it.
Even as reporters at Murdoch’s competitors start to be arrested, the bribery case will focus on News Corp. because its internal investigators are scouring documents and turning over evidence to police, said Roy Greenslade, a newspaper columnist and journalism professor at London’s City University.
Even as reporters at Murdoch’s competitors start to be arrested, the bribery case will focus on News Corp. because its internal investigators are scouring documents and turning over evidence to police, said Roy Greenslade, a newspaper columnist and journalism professor at London’s City University.