Full coverage as the News Corp chief goes to Wapping to deal with the most staff serious revolt in his career
11.01am: Andrew Neil, former editor of the Sunday Times, spoke about the significance of Murdoch's visit in an interview with CNN.
Neil said: "At the moment, it looks like he's prepared to sacrifice the journalists and journalism in London to do whatever it takes to been seen to be cleaning up his act there so that it will play better in the United States.
"Rupert Murdoch with his take no prisoners attitude to tabloid journalism, the ends will justify the means, do whatever it takes – that created the kind of newsroom climate in which hacking and other things were done with impunity on an industrial scale."
Watch the full interview here:
10.52am: Murdoch has in the last few minutes arrived in Wapping.
The mogul arrived in a blacked-out silver Range Rover about 30 minutes after leaving his home in Mayfair.
Lisa O'Carroll, our correspondent at the scene, reports that Murdoch "almost" dodged the waiting media by entering via a backstreet.
#Murdoch just arrived into wapping. Driven in at high speed almost dodging snappers by approaching from back road
— lisa o'carroll (@lisaocarroll) February 17, 2012
10.50am: Rupert Murdoch is to visit News International's Wapping headquarters in east London amid the most staff serious revolt in his four decades as a newspaper proprietor in the UK.
Murdoch will meet senior executives at the Sun, which has seen 10 of its journalists arrested in recent months as part of the police investigation into illegal activity by newspapers.
The media mogul is also expected to have a meeting with the News International Staff Association (Nisa) over journalists' concerns about the confidentiality of sources. This follows the revelation that the News Corp unit set up to investigate alleged wrongdoing had disclosed information about sources to the police.
Murdoch is expected to arrive shortly, after flying in to Luton airport on his private jet last night.
Our media correspondent, Lisa O'Carroll, is at Wapping. We will have all the latest from Lisa and elsewhere as Murdoch addresses his staff.
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