The effort by Australia's richest businesswoman, Gina Rinehart, to break into the boardroom of Fairfax Media, is a textbook study in how not to conduct a negotiation, according to experts.

Gotcha! Rupert Murdoch's favourite editor, Rebekah Brooks, has been charged with perverting the course of justice and will face a jury trial that could send her to jail.

Peter Slipper may well be entitled to the presumption of innocence. But it's a miracle he got the Speaker's job in the first place.

Another day, another defeat for James Murdoch, who quit yesterday as executive chairman of the family's pay TV business BSkyB after nine years in charge. James's empire at News Corp—where he is technically third in charge, behind his father and Chase Carey—has now shrunk to only the Italian and Asian pay TV operations.

Sydney's Star casino scandal presents a few quick lessons for all those involved. The most important of which concerns the elephant in the high-rollers' room: James Packer.

The broadcast media watchdog, ACMA, has found that Kyle Sandilands' comments about a female journalist were deeply derogatory and offensive and imposed new conditions on his station 2DayFM.

There's being gracious in defeat, and there's giving up before the race has even begun. Anna Bligh chose the latter.

James Murdoch maintains that he did not pick up the 'smoking gun' documents that showed phone hacking was rife at News of the World.

The House of Commons committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World is already three months overdue with its report because members have been arguing about how hard to whack James Murdoch. So will they brand him a liar or settle for chump? And just what is the evidence against him?

Paul Barry presents part one of an examination into the allegations against James Murdoch.