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If there was any doubt about the gravity of the mission facing the three members of News Corp.’s management-and-standards committee, board member Viet Dinh dispelled it at a meeting held a year ago in a 13th-floor conference room with a panoramic view of London.
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Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to pay $6.7 billion for a 45 percent stake in the U.K.’s Alliance Boots GmbH in an attempt to create a global chain of pharmacies.
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News Corp. executive Joel Klein stepped down as the head of the company’s internal committee investigating phone hacking and bribery, passing the role to General Counsel Gerson Zweifach.
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Before Rebekah Brooks was arrested last year over her role in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, she staved off a police threat of obstruction charges related to the company unit she headed, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrived in London last July to take charge of a burgeoning phone-hacking scandal and was asked by reporters what his priority was.
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Last July when London prosecutors claim Rebekah Brooks was attempting to hide seven boxes of relevant evidence from a police probe, the former top lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. was dealing with the crisis point of the phone-hacking scandal under investigation.
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News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch told British lawmakers he’s the “best person” to clean up the company after a phone-hacking scandal. Fifteen days later, it isn’t clear how he’ll accomplish that.
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News Corp.’s Simon Greenberg, a member of an internal panel tasked with reviewing phone hacking at the News of the World and the company’s other U.K. newspapers, once oversaw a reporter at another publication arrested last week in a police probe.
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News Corp., which closed its U.K. News of the World tabloid this year following a phone-hacking scandal, said its Management and Standards Committee is investigating the company’s three other British newspapers.
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News Corp. is reviewing e-mails and interviewing reporters at its remaining U.K. titles for signs employees might have hacked into voice mails or e-mails, or hired private detectives improperly, two people familiar with the investigation said.
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