Rupert Murdoch said he will launch a Sunday version of his top-selling British tabloid The Sun “very soon”, as he sought to boost morale among staff left angry and hurt by a wave of arrests.
The media tycoon said that despite a police investigation into claims that journalists paid police and other public officials for information, the tabloid would not suffer the same fate as its sister paper, the News of the World. Murdoch shut the News of the World, a Sunday tabloid, in July over a phone-hacking scandal, which has spawned three police probes and a government-ordered inquiry into the standards and ethics of the British press.
“We will build on The Sun’s proud heritage by launching the Sun on Sunday very soon,” the 80-year-old said in an email to staff at his British newspaper division.
Published 17 February 2012, 19:04 IST