MURDOCH ROCKED BY NEW SCANDAL

Rupert Murdoch was reportedly flying to London on Sunday following the latest bombshell in the continuing scandal involving his British newspapers — the arrest of five senior journalists at The Sun, Britain’s largest circulating daily newspaper (2.7 million copies). They included the newspaper’s deputy editor, chief reporter, chief foreign correspondent, picture editor, and a reporter. [...]

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 [...]

FOUR MORE NEWS CORP REPORTERS ARRESTED

Opening a new phase in the investigation that began with allegations of voicemail hacking by reporters for the now defunct London tabloid News of the World, police on Saturday arrest four current and former reporters for the Sun, another London newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch. A serving police officer was also arrested as Scotland Yard [...]

FORMER TABLOID EDITOR ADMITS USING UNRELIABLE INFORMANTS

The former investigations editor of the now-defunct British newspaper News of the World has told a panel looking into journalistic ethics that he has used people as sources for stories that police have considered “unreliable.” “I’ve had front page splashes from crack addicts,” Mazher Mahmood told the Leveson inquiry. Mahmood, who moved from the News [...]

NEWS CORP SCANDAL WIDENS; BRIBERY NOW ALLEGED

News Corp has admitted that a former editor who worked for its News of the World and London Sun newspapers in the U.K. ordered a reporter in 2009 to bribe a female prison guard in order to get information about a child killer. Bloomberg News reported today (Thursday) that the editor, Matt Nixson, was subsequently [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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