Murdoch plans to launch Sun on Sundays
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch promised the U.K. a Sunday edition of the tabloid The Sun will launch soon, according to local media.
He said, as reported by the Guardian: “We will build on the Sun’s proud heritage by launching the Sun on Sunday very soon.” He went to say News International had a duty to launch the Sun on Sunday in order “to expand one of the world’s most widely read newspapers and reach even more people than ever before”. “Having a winning paper is the best answer to our critics,” he noted.
Visiting the Sun newsroom recently, Murdoch also stood by his staffers. He backed members of staff arrested by saying “everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.” Nine journalists were arrested this month after information was passed to the police by an internal body to deal with inquiries into telephone hacking and police corruption.
He also lifted all staff suspensions, BBC News writes.
Media commentator Steve Hewlett said Murdoch was facing the kind of “ructions” in his company he had never seen before, BBC News adds.
“What he’s trying to say to the people here is ‘look we really are on the same side’, but the fact is he is between a rock and a hard place and these are both of his and his company’s own making,” he said.