Murdoch puts his top lawyer onto News Corp panel
RUPERT Murdoch (pictured) is working to stem a growing rebellion within his newspaper business, as he beefs up the group’s oversight committee and prepares to fly back to the UK.
The company’s new top corporate lawyer Gerson Zweifach has joined the management and standards committee, a source familiar with the company said yesterday.
The panel was set up at the height of the furore over phone hacking and was designed to rescue the company’s reputation.
The small committee is working alongside up to 100 personnel from top London law firms as well as forensic advisers and computer experts searching through more than 300m emails, expense claims, phone records and other documents.
But it might not be enough to deflect mounting criticism of his papers including the Sun, which saw five of its journalists arrested last week.
Former Sunday Times editor Andrew Neil told Reuters: “The Sun has turned against Rupert Murdoch.
“He has put in place things he cannot stop.”