HEATHER MILLS DENIES SHE GAVE PIERS MORGAN VOICEMAIL TAPES

Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Paul McCartney, has denied that she ever provided recordings of her telephone messages from McCartney to Piers Morgan or any other journalist. Mills, testifying before the British panel looking into journalistic ethics in the U.K., appeared to contradict a statement by the CNN host in his own testimony (via satellite) [...]

HACKING SCANDAL SPREADS TO LONDON TIMES

On his Twitter posts, Rupert Murdoch has remained oddly silent about the latest developments involving News Corp’s hacking scandal(s) in the U.K. While mentioning the latest market moves by Facebook and Google and remarking, “Things are buzzing,” Murdoch today (Friday) said nothing at all about the buzz over reports on Thursday that a crucial email exchange [...]

HACKING DETECTIVE MUST NAME HIGHER-UPS, COURT RULES

A British appeals court has turned down efforts by the private detective at the center of the U.K. telephone hacking scandal to avoid revealing the names of the higher-ups at The News of the World and/or News International who paid him to intercept the voicemail of British celebrities. The detective, Glenn Mulcaire, is expected to [...]

VENEZUELA BLAMES UNIVISION FOR OUSTER OF DIPLOMAT

The Venezuelan government has accused U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster Univision of airing “groundless accusations” in a TV documentary that led to its consul general, Livia Acosta Noguera, in Miami being declared persona non grata by the U.S. and placing the consulate’s staff in harm’s way. The staff has been directed to return to Caracas. The ouster [...]

REPORT: PBS DEVELOPING SPECIAL ABOUT U.K. HACKING SCANDAL

PBS’s Frontline is preparing a special about the telephone hacking scandal that has embroiled — and continues to dog — News Corp, Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera has disclosed in a Facebook post. Rivera said that he learned about plans for the special from veteran investigative reporter Lowell Bergman, a colleague during their days at [...]

NEW ARREST IN NEWS CORP HACKING SCANDAL

Scotland Yard has made a 17th arrest in connection with its investigation of voicemail hacking conducted by the now-defunct News of the World. Although it did not release the name of the arrested figure, news reports indicated that the person was Cheryl Carter, who had worked as former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks’s personal assistant [...]

MURDOCH TWEETS: PRAISES HIS MOVIES

Vacationing on St. Bart’s in the Caribbean, Rupert Murdoch opened a Twitter account over the weekend and promptly used it to promote two movies that units of his News Corp have released. “I LOVE the film ‘we bought a zoo’, a great family movie. Very proud of fox team who made this great film,” he [...]

NEWS CORP SETS ASIDE $155 MILLION FOR HACKING SETTLEMENTS

News International, the unit of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp that oversees his British news operations, has reportedly added £80 million ($124 million) to the kitty it had set up to settle invasion-of-privacy lawsuits arising from telephone hacking conducted by reporters and private investigators working for the now-defunct tabloid News of the World. The legal fund [...]

U.K. POST-HACKING INQUIRY BECOMING A COSTLY AFFAIR

In its first three months, the Leveson inquiry, set up by the British Parliament to look into journalistic ethics in the wake of the News of the World telephone hacking scandal, has cost U.K. taxpayers $1.34 million, according to figures posted on the inquiry’s website Wednesday. By far the lion’s share of that amount — [...]

SCOTLAND YARD POLICEWOMAN ARRESTED IN U.K. HACKING PROBE

A 52-year-old Scotland Yard policewoman was arrested early today (Wednesday) on charges of receiving illegal payments from British journalists. The woman, whose name was not released, reportedly works for the “specialist operations division,” a highly critical unit that is responsible for such matters as national security and the protection of the royal family. Her arrest [...]

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