News Corporation Scandal:
The News Corporation scandal developed in mid-2011 out of a series of investigations following up the News of the World royal phone hacking scandal of 2005 to 2007. Where initially the scandal appeared contained to a single journalist at News Corporation subsidiary News of the World, with 2007 jailing of Clive Goodman and the resignation of then editor Andy Coulson, investigations ultimately revealed a much wider pattern of wrong-doing.
This led to the closure of News of the World on 10 July 2011, an apology by Rupert Murdoch in an advertisement in most of the British national newspapers and the withdrawing of News Corporation's bid to take over the majority of BSkyB shares it didn’t own.
Investigations continued into what the company and individuals at the company knew of the phone hacking and when, and also into other issues, comprising questions around police bribery. As police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 charged with crimes in conjunction with unlawful acquisition of confidential information, many if not most of them employees or agents of News Corp.
Research matters as they relate to the questions – a starting however not essentially authoritative source is www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation_scandal.
Search many other sources which relate to this topic.
Answer the given four (4) questions associated to the causes of the disaster and lessons which might hopefully be learned to avoid a similar situation occurring.
Question 1: Explain the different kinds of controls which managers can implement on any project – feed forward control, concurrent control and feedback control.
Question 2: Summarize some of the causes of the scandal and detail what are some of the feed forward controls which should have been undertaken for such a global media company.
Question 3: What monitoring or controlling processes must have been in place to prevent or quickly identify any problems occurring in the news reporting business?
Question 4: Explain the overall impact on the global media, newspapers, staff, politicians and investors due to failures in control processes in News Corporation.