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 [...]

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 — [...]

BROTHER OF DEAD NEWS CORP WHISTLEBLOWER DEFENDS HIS NAME

The brother of one of the principal whistleblowers in News Corp’s phone-hacking scandal has testified that efforts by Rupert Murdoch’s organization to discredit him led to his death. In a statement to the Leveson inquiry into press ethics in the U.K., Stuart Hoare, the brother of Sean Hoare, who went on the record in a [...]

NEWS INTERNATIONAL DAMAGES TESTIMONY BY ITS FORMER CHIEF

Repeated assertions by former News International chief Rebekah Brooks that she knew nothing about voicemail hacking being conducted by reporters of the now-defunct NI tabloid News of the World have seemingly been undermined by NI itself. In a letter to the Commons Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee, it was revealed that Brooks personally negotiated [...]

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 [...]

POTTER WRITER, ACTRESS BLAST PAPARAZZI

British actress Sienna Miller and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling have told the Leveson hearing into U.K. media ethics about how they have been hounded by reporters, photographers and television cameramen, who have intruded on their privacy, and, in Rowling’s case, her children’s as well. Miller, whose romance with Jude Law became fodder for the [...]

HUGH GRANT TESTIFIES AT U.K. HACKING INQUIRY

Hugh Grant on Monday implicated another British tabloid in the telephone hacking scandal that has until now focused on the now-defunct Rupert Murdoch tabloid News of the World. In an appearance before the Leveson inquiry into the scandal, Grant hit out at a story published by The Mail on Sunday that claimed that his relationship [...]

BRITISH INQUIRY INTO NEWS ETHICS OPENS

The Leveson inquiry into U.K. media ethics that will focus on the telephone hacking scandal that brought down Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid News of the World, opened today (Monday) with allegations by the panel’s chief counsel, Robert Jay, that phone hacking became “a thriving cottage industry” at News International, the News Corp subsidiary that oversees [...]