Murdoch seeks to boost morale of ‘Sun’ staff

News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch, reads “The Sun” newspaper, as he is driven from his home, in central London on Friday. Mr. Murdoch met the newspaper staff amid police inquiries into alleged misconduct and simmering dissent among the company's rank and file.

News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch gave staff at his scandal-it tabloid The Sun new assurances over their future on Friday in London crisis talks.

Staff said Mr. Murdoch had discussed plans to open a new Sunday tabloid and confirmed that workers currently suspended amid police inquiries into alleged wrongdoing would be allowed to return to their posts.

The newspaper’s royal photographer Arthur Edwards posted a message to his Twitter account confirming “all suspensions at

The Sun have been lifted.”

Jim Munro, the tabloid’s digital sports editor, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Murdoch had announced a new title,

The Sun on Sunday , would launch “very soon.”

Mr. Murdoch closed his flagship Sunday tabloid, the News of the World , in July amid outrage over phone hacking.