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 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 [...]

FIRED NEWS OF THE WORLD EDITOR COMES CLEAN

A central figure in the News of the World telephone hacking scandal has acknowledged that Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks were kept in the dark about the hacking and that his own efforts to bring the matter to the attention of Brooks was thwarted by an unnamed superior. [...]

NEWS CORP SCANDAL SPREADS TO SECOND NEWSPAPER

Bringing to mind Watergate figure John Dean’s warning to Richard Nixon that the political scandal represented a “cancer on the presidency,” Scotland Yard has arrested a veteran editor of the London Sun on “suspicion of corruption.” It was the 17th arrest made in connection with the growing scandal that continues to threaten Rupert Murdoch’s media [...]

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 [...]

HACKERGATE ARRESTS NOW NUMBER 10

Rebekah Brooks, the recently resigned CEO of News International, the umbrella group for News Corp’s newspapers in the U.K., voluntarily turned herself in to police today (Sunday) and was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption. A spokesman for Brooks said that she was arrested “by appointment” when she “attended a London police station [...]

CHIEF OF MURDOCH’S NEWS INTERNATIONAL QUITS UNDER FIRE

Rupert Murdoch’s efforts to limit the damage to his media empire from the telephone hacking scandal that has engulfed News International, the umbrella group for his British news operations, suffered a new setback today (Friday) when Rebekah Brooks resigned as News International’s CEO. Arriving in London last week, Murdoch immediately met with Brooks, who was [...]

FORMER BRITISH P.M. BLASTS NEWS CORP, MURDOCH

In the most damning denunciation of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to date following the recent telephone hacking revelations, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused the media conglomerate of engaging in “law-breaking on an industrial scale” and described News International, the umbrella group for Murdoch’s British news operations, as “a criminal media nexus” that “claimed [...]

PARLIAMENT SUMMONS MURDOCH

Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and Rebekah Brooks, head of News International, have received summonses to appear before Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport committee next Tuesday. While their appearances are not mandatory, several analysts suggested that their refusal to appear could only exacerbate their continuing embarrassment over the News of the World hacking scandal. Rupert [...]

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