With peripheral inquiries ongoing in to conspiracy and media ethics, Tuesday’s announcement that Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others will be charged for “phone hacking” shows the News Of The World furore will soon finally focus on the original criminal allegations.
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Robert Andrews
Jul 24, 2012 - 6:29 AM PST
News International’s recently-appointed digital product director is trying to make the publisher more agile and innovative in digital media…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 20, 2012 - 6:18 AM PST
News International said it had settled seven privacy claims against News Group Newspapers, the publisher of the now-defunct News of the Worl…
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Josh Halliday, MediaGuardian
Dec 20, 2011 - 3:34 PM PST
The father of Josie Russell, the girl who survived a hammer attack in which her mother and sister were killed, is among a raft of new claima…
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Roy Greenslade, MediaGuardian
Oct 5, 2011 - 2:29 PM PST
Investors in News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), Rupert Murdoch’s media company, were urged on Tuesday to vote against the re-election of his son…
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James Robinson, MediaGuardian
Sep 28, 2011 - 8:16 AM PST
One of James Murdoch’s closest advisers has resigned from News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), it emerged on Tuesday, amid disagreements over the w…
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Dan Sabbagh, MediaGuardian
Sep 27, 2011 - 1:24 PM PST
Lawyers for Gordon Taylor said he wanted to be “vindicated or made rich” in negotiations over his controversial £700,000 ($1,121,341.40) ph…
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Lisa O'Carroll, MediaGuardian
Sep 8, 2011 - 2:29 PM PST
A police detective has been arrested on suspicion of leaking details about Scotland Yard’s phone-hacking investigation. The man has not been…
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James Robinson, MediaGuardian
Aug 19, 2011 - 6:26 PM PST
James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone…
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Amelia Hill, MediaGuardian
Aug 18, 2011 - 11:07 AM PST
The House of Commons Select Committee investigating widespread hacking at News of the World and a host of potential ripple effects, includin…
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Staci D. Kramer
Aug 16, 2011 - 10:18 AM PST
Senior MPs want to question further one of News International’s technology suppliers, after the firm responsible for overseeing its day-to-d…
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Patrick Wintour, MediaGuardian
Aug 1, 2011 - 5:49 PM PST
James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News Internatio…
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Nicholas Watt, MediaGuardian
Jul 22, 2011 - 6:48 PM PST
James Murdoch has been accused of giving incorrect information to the parliamentary select committee hearing on phone hacking about a six-fi…
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Lisa O'Carroll, MediaGuardian
Jul 21, 2011 - 4:35 PM PST
First LulzSec took over The Sun’s homepage, then it took down the rest of News International’s sites. Now it appears that the hackers are wo…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 21, 2011 - 10:48 AM PST
After the Tuesday drama of key figures in the hacking scandal, including Rupert and James Murdoch, testifying before Parliamentary committee…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 20, 2011 - 9:40 PM PST
New York Times (NYSE: NYT) media writer and David Carr, appearing now in theaters via documentary Page One, hit the big time on TV Tuesday n…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 20, 2011 - 12:55 PM PST
Rupert Murdoch’s News International company has been found by a parliamentary committee to have “deliberately” tried to block a Scotland Yar…
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Vikram Dodd, MediaGuardian
Jul 20, 2011 - 3:39 AM PST
We know Piers Morgan for his reality TV stints and his gig now as Larry King’s replacement on CNN. But before that he was a well-known tablo…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 19, 2011 - 9:30 PM PST
Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacki…
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Amelia Hill, MediaGuardian
Jul 18, 2011 - 2:12 PM PST
They say that nature abhors a vacuum. And so it should come as no surprise that with last week’s demise of the top-selling, scandal-ridden S…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 15, 2011 - 11:48 AM PST
Below is the full text of the email that Rebekah Brooks sent to staff at News Corp.’s News International this morning. Our full story here.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 15, 2011 - 7:08 AM PST
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) has called in PR and lobbying specialists Edelman to help the embattled company handle mountin…
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Rupert Neate, MediaGuardian
Jul 14, 2011 - 9:48 PM PST
These last weeks in UK politics and media could have come out of a Robert Harris novel. And a couple of the more colorful characters have be…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 13, 2011 - 8:50 PM PST
This video — of News Of The World editor Colin Myler, addressing the staff of the paper for the very last time, last Saturday after the pap…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 12, 2011 - 7:21 AM PST
The News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). phone-hacking and police payoffs scandal, which has riveted Britain for more than a week, has finally reached Ame…
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Sam Gustin
Jul 11, 2011 - 6:50 PM PST
Who was targeted by the News of the World?
The revelation that murder victim Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked is the latest, and perhaps mos…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Jul 11, 2011 - 2:05 PM PST
While some of those working on News of the World may have been able to slide in a few barbs against their employer in the final edition of t…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 10, 2011 - 4:24 PM PST
News International is taking down its online paywall for the last edition of The News of the World on Sunday, July 10. But the scandal-ridde…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 8, 2011 - 9:26 PM PST
Here’s an excerpt from BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield’s take on the potential impact of the News of the World hacking scandal on News Corp (NS…
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Richard Greenfield
Jul 8, 2011 - 9:18 PM PST
When the News of the World disappears from print this Sunday, its digital assets will be going right out the door with it. Or will they? NOT…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 7, 2011 - 8:50 PM PST
The fire that has engulfed The News of the World newspaper over the phone hacking scandal has threatened to spread to the rest of News Inter…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 7, 2011 - 2:30 PM PST
In the face of tremendous, growing outrage over ethical and legal breaches by the UK’s largest tabloid, New Corp. bowed to pressure with an…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jul 7, 2011 - 12:58 PM PST
The newest voicemail hacking scandal that has engulfed the UK tabloid News of the World was described by one commentator today as a “slow mo…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 5, 2011 - 9:26 AM PST
Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron’s director of communications, was forced to resign today, saying the continuing allegations that…
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Patrick Wintour, MediaGuardian
Jan 21, 2011 - 6:11 PM PST
News Corp.’s UK Sunday tabloid has introduced web fees. Digital editor Rachel Richardson explained the philosophy in a webchat with journali…
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Rachel Richardson, News Of The World
Oct 14, 2010 - 11:59 AM PST