EX-NEWS OF THE WORLD REPORTER CALLS EDITORS “SCUM”

A former reporter and features editor for Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World has claimed that two former editors were well aware that the voicemails of celebrities and politicians were being routinely hacked by reporters, working with private investigators. Paul McMullan, who worked for the tabloid from 1994 to 2001, told the Leveson [...]

WHEN DID NEWS CORP EXECS LEARN ABOUT HACKING?

The telephone-hacking saga involving Rupert Murdoch’s News International, the umbrella group for his British news operations, took a new twist today (Thursday) when the London Independent disclosed that “up to a dozen” executives of N.I. were made aware by police as far back as 2006 that phone hacking at the now defunct News of the [...]

LAWYER CLAIMS BRITAIN’S CHANCELLOR FELT OBLIGATED TO EDITOR

Mark Lewis, a lawyer for several of the alleged victims of telephone hacking by a private detective and reporters working for the now-defunct British tabloid News of the World, has suggested that Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne recommended that Andy Coulson, the tabloid’s former editor, be appointed Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications director because [...]

HACKERGATE PROBE: WHY WAS COULSON PAID AFTER HE QUIT?

New questions have arisen about why Andy Coulson was awarded a substantial severance package paid over several years after he resigned as editor of News of the World when the scandal over voicemail hacking first broke in 2007. Britain’s Guardian newspaper took note of a message left by David Yelland, a former editor of another [...]

EDITOR IN HACKING SCANDAL MAY HAVE HAD TWO BOSSES

Britain’s telephone hacking scandal took a new turn on Monday when the BBC reported that former News of the World editor Andy Coulson had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from News International, the News Corp subsidiary that oversees Rupert Murdoch’s news operations in the U.S., after he had resigned from the paper and had [...]

A SMOKING GUN IN NEWS CORP’S HACKERGATE SCANDAL?

Evidence that would appear to suggest that senior executives of Rupert Murdoch’s British news subsidiary News International (NI), including his son James, had engaged in a massive cover-up of the voicemail hacking scandal since at least 2007 was published today (Tuesday) by the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee. The evidence includes a [...]

U.K. LAWMAKERS HURL NEW CHARGES AT NEWS CORP

Despite protestations by News Corp Deputy COO James Murdoch before one Parliamentary committee on Tuesday that the company wants to be “completely transparent” in its handling of the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the company, another Parliamentary committee today (Wednesday) accused News International, the British news division that the younger Murdoch oversees, of “deliberately” [...]

WILL HACKERGATE BECOME MURDOCH’S WATERGATE?

One day after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, its most profitable newspaper, following allegations of illegal snooping by a private detective and reporters working for it, it appeared that the company had not shut down the scandal. Indeed, Prime Minister David Cameron said today (Friday) that police were [...]

NEW HACKING REVELATIONS SET OFF UPROAR IN U.K.

The voicemail hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid News of the World appeared to threaten Prime Minister David Cameron’s government Tuesday as it emerged that News International, the umbrella group for Murdoch’s news operations in the U.K., had turned over to investigators details of payments made by the tabloid to senior police officers between [...]

OLD BBC HAND TO BECOME SPOKESMAN FOR BRITISH P.M.

Prime Minister David Cameron has picked a veteran ITN and BBC newscaster to become his new spokesman, replacing Andy Coulson, who resigned last month, a victim of the scandal over hacked voicemails by reporters for the London tabloid News of the World while he was editing it. Craig Oliver’s political affiliation is unknown. At the [...]

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