Murdoch to launch 'The Sun on Sunday' next week

News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch will unveil the first issue of The Sun on Sunday next week, The Telegraph reported.

The widely anticipated Sunday version of The Sun will be launched on February 26, News Corporation chief executive Tom Mockridge told the staff. The announcement comes after Murdoch, 80, visited the Wapping offices of the tabloid on Friday to reassure employees in the wake of five more arrests of senior journalists over allegations of corrupt payments.
Murdoch told colleagues the newspaper was “part of me” and described it as “one of our proudest achievements”.

He also gave his firm backing to the members of staff arrested by saying “everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.” In an email to staff, Mockridge said Murdoch would be staying in London to oversee the launch.

The Sun is a daily national newspaper published in Britain and owned by News Corporation. The Sun on Sunday will replace the top-selling News of The World, which was closed in July last year after revelations that members of its staff had routinely hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages of celebrities, sports figures, politicians and crime victims and paid bribes to public officials to score exclusives.