Leveson inquiry: Jack Straw revealed he regularly met Rebekah Brooks between 2007 and 2009 Leveson inquiry: Jack Straw used to gossip with Rebekah Brooks Former justice secretary reveals he regularly arranged to meet the then Sun editor as they made the same train journey Jack Straw arranged to meet Rebekah Brooks for a gossip once a [...]
Rebekah Brooks leaves the Leveson inquiry with her husband, Charlie. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Rebekah Brooks turns screw on Jeremy Hunt with ‘hacking advice’ email Culture secretary under pressure as email appears to show he asked Murdoch firm’s advice on dealing with hacking scandal The embattled culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, came under renewed pressure when the former News [...]
Milly Dowler: police said because the full technical call data was missing, reaching a definitive conclusion may never be possible. Photograph: Surrey police/PA The full truth about the extent of hacking into Milly Dowler‘s phone may never be known, police have admitted. Their report to the Leveson inquiry followed an investigation lasting five months into the [...]
Tom Watson’s book Dial M for Murdoch, co-written with Martin Hickman, looks at the relationship between NI and UK politicians and police. Photograph: AFP/Getty How Tom Watson came under pressure to halt his campaign against hacking From Dial M for Murdoch, which looks into the relationship between UK politicians, police and News Internationa The Guardian, Friday [...]
Leveson inquiry appearance … News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch is scheduled to answer questions on Wednesday. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Rupert Murdoch is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and media ethics next week, with a day and a half set aside for the News Corporation founder. Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp, is [...]
Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, has been questioned at Milton Keynes police station. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief executive, has been questioned at Milton Keynes police station by police officers investigating alleged phone hacking at the News of the World and alleged corrupt payments made to public officials. [...]
The Times was criticised for a court statement over its unmasking of the police blogger Nightjack. Photograph: Frank Doran/MCP/Rex Features A high court witness statement by a former Times journalist has been described as “utterly misleading” and “not accurate” by Lord Justice Leveson in one of the most tense sessions since his inquiry into [...]
After the jailing of News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman, above, News International downplayed the significance of what had happened. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images Phone-hacking: how the ‘rogue reporter’ defence slowly crumbled A series of denials by News International after the jailing of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulciaire became harderto sustain Within [...]
Rebekah Brooks, the fomer Sun and News of the World editor, was among six arrested today in Operation Weeting‘s phone-hacking investigation. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Rebekah Brooks is among six people arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, as part of the investigation into phone hacking. The [...]
Leveson inquiry hears Met police allegedly sent report to John Reid and security service, but it was not made public John Reid, a home secretary under Tony Blair, was informed of phone hacking, according to Met police former deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA The Tony Blair government was secretly briefed about the phone hacking [...]
At last year’s News Corp AGM, 35% of shareholders voted against James Murdoch‘s re-election to the board. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Shareholders are planning to step up their campaign to oust James Murdoch from News Corp following his decision to quit the UK and return to New York. News Corp announced on Wednesday that Murdoch was giving up [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s Management and Standards Committee has given Scotland Yard access to an enormous reservoir of material from News International’s central computer servers. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On Saturday morning, the police arrested four journalists who have worked for Rupert Murdoch. For a while, it looked as though these were yet more arrests of people related to the News [...]
Phone hacking: a newly released report has revealed that News of the World journalists interfered in Surrey police‘s investigation into the Milly Dowler case. Photograph: Johnny Green/PA Phone hacking: News of the World journalists lied to Milly Dowler police Surrey police report released by MPs reveals reporters interfered with investigation as well as hacking missing [...]
News Corp subsidary paid Sadie Frost £50,000 and Jude Law £130,000 in damages for stories obtained by NoW phone hacking. Photograph: Jonathan Evans/Corbis A high court judge said the Murdoch-owned company behind the News of the World had made “an admission of sorts” that it engaged in a deliberate cover-up of evidence relating to phone hacking, on [...]
Actor Jude Law was among the phone hacking victims who received a settlement from News International. Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty News International has agreed to pay out to 37 victims of News of the World phone hacking, including Jude Law, Lord Prescott and Ashley Cole, in a series of settlements likely to land the publisher with a bill of [...]
Paul Dacre had hand in accusing Hugh Grant of smears, Leveson inquiry hears Dacre was involved in drafting statement following Grant’s claim that Mail on Sunday could have hacked his phone Hugh Grant giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry in November. Photograph: Reuters Paul Dacre, the Associated Newspapers editor-in-chief, had a hand in the drafting of the [...]
We are beginning the new year with an in-depth look at what was the biggest media story of last year – the tabloid phone hacking scandal that shook the world’s most powerful media corporation and is sure to cause more tremors in the year to come. The big turning point in [...]
Phone hacking: the woman arrested is understood to be Cheryl Carter, former PA to Rebekah Brooks (above). Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images The long-serving personal assistant to former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is understood to have been arrested by detectives investigating phone hacking. A 47-year-old woman, understood to be Brooks’s former PA Cheryl Carter, was [...]
Lord Justice Leveson: the judge was blunt that the inquiry was about much more than the hacking into Milly Dowler‘s phone. Photograph: Getty Images “Oh no I didn’t!” “Oh yes you did!” As good as any Christmas pantomime, the Leveson inquiry into tabloid morals may well have been intended, as its critics allege, to distract attention from [...]
Milly Dowler was abducted and murdered by Levi Bellfield in 2002 Continue reading the main story Related Stories Phone-hacking scandal: Timeline Phone hacking: The main players Q&A: Phone-hacking scandal A News International executive has asked the Guardian to correct 26 articles alleging the News of the World deleted Milly Dowler’s voicemails. The Met Police last [...]
Kate and Gerry McCann giving evidence at the Leveson Inquiry over coverage of their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance. News of the World made a confidential payment for publishing Kate’s private diaries. Photograph: Pool/Reuters link http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/17/news-of-world-mccanns-payment Confidential deal towards search fund for Madeleine was part of apology for tabloid’s publication of mother Kate’s diary extracts The News of the [...]
News of the World editor Colin Myler holds the last copy of the paper as his staff leave their offices for the last time. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Did a mistake in the Guardian’s Milly Dowler story cause the closure of the News of the World? The last 72 hours has seen a string of [...]
Former News of the World editor Colin Myler speaking at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Reuters Leveson calls NoW emails to women in Max Mosley story ‘frankly outrageous’ Judge challenges News of the World’s former editor, Colin Myler, over paper‘s ethos Lord Justice Leveson has branded emails sent by the News of the Worldto two women in [...]
Neville Thurlbeck, former News of the World chief reporter. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Neville Thurlbeck, the sacked chief reporter of the News of the World, has claimed that knowledge of phone hacking “went to the top” of the newspaper “but no further”. In an interview with BBC Radio 4′s Media Show broadcast on Wednesday, Thurlbeck said: “The [...]
James Murdoch admits receiving ‘hacking’ email link http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/dec/13/leveson-inquiry-tom-crone-julian-pike-live#block-70 Murdoch writes to DCMS select committee to say he did not read Crone note on Colin Myler email You definitely need a compass, a cut lunch and a hurricane lamp to even attempt to find what James of Team Murdoch is saying. But it does not look good. [...]
Milly Dowler: it is now considered unlikely that Glenn Mulcaire had been responsible for deleting the missing girl’s voicemail messages. Photograph: Surrey Police/PA The Leveson inquiry into press behaviour has launched its own spin-off inquiry in an attempt, in Lord Justice Leveson’s words, to “get to the bottom of” fresh evidence about the News of [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s second visit to 10 Downing Street was disclosed in fresh information on goverment hospitality. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Allegra Stratton, Dan Sabbagh and Josh Halliday The Guardian, Saturday 10 December 2011 Article history Rupert Murdoch attended No 10 Downing Street for a previously undisclosed second meeting with David Cameron in July 2010 in the period immediately after his company launched the [...]
David Blunkett campaigning in the 2010 election. NI has approved a confidential payout to the former home secretary over allegations his phone was hacked. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Jamie Doward and Toby Helm guardian.co.uk, Saturday 10 December 2011 21.00 GMT Article history Rupert Murdoch’s News International has approved a confidential payout to former home secretary David Blunkett over allegations his phone was [...]
DAC Sue Akers gave evidence to the Commons committee into hacking earlier this year. Photograph: PA Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Saturday 10 December 2011 13.03 GMT Article history The final number of victims of the News of the World‘s phone-hacking operation is expected to be in the region of 800 people, Scotland Yard has said. This is a [...]
Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has provided evidence accusing executives of ‘withholding information’. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The News of the World‘s former chief reporter has provided written evidence to MPs accusing executives on the paper of “withholding information” about the extent of phone-hacking at the title from a parliamentary committee and other [...]
Phone hacking: Max Clifford was paid a settlement worth more than £650,000 by the publisher of the News of the World. Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images James Murdoch: I did not authorise Max Clifford phone-hacking settlement News Corp boss claims he did not sign off deal with publicist worth more than £650,000 James Murdoch has written to [...]
James Murdoch‘s lawyers have responded to a question from MPs by confirming that Tom Watson was put under surveillance. Photograph: PA James Murdoch‘s lawyers have confirmed that Labour MP Tom Watsonwas put under surveillance for a week in 2009, in a letter sent to Parliament. Three News International employees were involved in setting up the monitoring of [...]
Glenn Mulcaire: former private investigator for the News of the World. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images The private investigator Glenn Mulcaire is understood to have been arrested in connection with voicemail interception and perverting the course of justice. Detectives investigating phone hacking said a 41-year-old man was arrested at an address in London on Wednesday morning and was [...]
Phone hacking: a 41-year-old man has been arrested by Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA A 41-year-old man has been arrested in connection with phone hacking and perverting the course of justice. The Metropolitan police said the man was arrested at 7am at an address in London on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail [...]
Mark Lewis has followed Alastair Campbell in giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry Leveson inquiry: Alastair Campbell and Alec Owens give evidence – live • The former deputy head of the UK’s data protection authority, Alec Owens, was warned by bosses that press was ‘too big’ to take on over private investigators • Mark Lewis, [...]
Ex-News of the World journalist Paul McMullan leaves the Leveson Inquiry into media practices at the high court in London. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks ‘knew about phone hacking at NoW’ Former tabloid journalist Paul McMullan tells of the ‘glory days’ of car chases and big payouts to private investigators reddit this James [...]
Paul McMullan, former News of the World deputy features editor, gives evidence at the Leveson inquiry Photograph: ITN Leveson inquiry: Nick Davies, Paul McMullan, Richard Peppiatt – live • Former News of the World deputy features editor brands Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks ‘the scum of journalism’ • Hacking Milly Dowler‘s phone was ‘not a [...]
Leveson inquiry: Nick Davies has been giving evidence on phone hacking at the News of the World. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Phone hacking: ‘NoW journalists deleted Milly Dowler voicemails’ The Guardian’s Nick Davies tells Leveson inquiry that private eye was ‘brilliant blagger’ but he only ‘facilitated’ paper’s actions reddit this Josh Halliday and Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 [...]
Former Daily Star journalist Richard Peppiatt arriving at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Leveson inquiry: ex-Daily Star reporter says he was threatened for speaking out Richard Peppiatt tells Leveson inquiry he is taking legal action against an unnamed ‘person linked to the tabloid world’ reddit this Josh Halliday and Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 29 November 2011 [...]
Leveson inquiry: Nick Davies, Paul McMullan, Richard Peppiatt – live • Former Daily Star reporter apologises to the family of Matt Lucas‘s ex-partner and others for stories he made up • He says reporters on tabloids were ‘cannon fodder‘ for proprietors and he was threatened after he started to speak out 1.05pm: The inquiry is now [...]
Steve Coogan gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry this week. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Steve Coogan: Leveson inquiry not being ‘distorted by celebrities’ Alan Partridge star defends inquiry into media ethics as father of 7/7 London bombings reportedly refuses to give evidence reddit this Jasmine Coleman guardian.co.uk, Saturday 26 November 2011 15.01 GMT Article history The [...]
Leveson inquiry: Kate and Gerry McCann have criticised press coverage of their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance. Photograph: Pool/Reuters Leveson inquiry: NI under pressure over Kate McCann diaries Madeleine McCann’s mother says she felt ‘totally violated’ as father demands investigation into how NoW got hold of diaries reddit this Josh Halliday and Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 November 2011 [...]
Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of the Sun newspaper, arrives to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Leveson inquiry: the tabloids don’t get it Their churlishness towards Leveson won’t make public horror over phone hacking go away reddit this Comments (139) John Kampfner guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 21.30 GMT Article history [...]
Leveson inquiry: hacking fallout ‘forced Elle Macpherson aide into rehab’ Mary-Ellen Field tells inquiry she had psychiatric treatment after supermodel sacked her, accusing her of leaking stories to press Elle Macpherson adviser blames job loss on phone hacking for losing job Link to this video Elle Macpherson’s former adviser told the Leveson inquiry into press standards on [...]
Leveson inquiry: comedian Steve Coogan leaves after giving evidence. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images Leveson inquiry: Coogan claims Andy Coulson set him up in ‘sting’ Actor says former News of the World editor published details about affair despite assurances from showbiz columnist reddit this Josh Halliday and Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 16.40 GMT Article history [...]
Actor Hugh Grant is one of a range of witnesses to spell out how they suffered from phone-hacking [Reuters] The parents of a murdered British schoolgirl have pleaded for the country’s newspapers to curb phone hacking and covert photography practices as a public inquiry into UK media standards turned the spotlight on the celebrity obsessed press. The disclosure in [...]
Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant gives evidence – live Live coverage as the actor and murdered schoolgirl’s parents become the first alleged phone-hacking victims to give evidence Link to video live material at http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/nov/21/leveson-inquiry-hugh-grant-dowlers-live 3.01pm: Most of Grant’s attack today appears aimed at the Daily Mail. 3.00pm: Grant says the Mail used “brinkmanship” to try and “stand [...]
Derek Webb says he was paid to follow scores of people, including such celebrities as Angelina Jolie, Princes William and Harry, and Tom Watson MP. Photograph: Manish Swarup/Associated Press News of the World private detective vows to expose tabloid stalker culture Derek Webb pledges to give evidence for people he followed who want to sue [...]
Phone hacking: Jude Law is among more than 60 alleged victims suing the former publisher of the News of the World. Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images Phone-hacking victims must not launch ‘witch-hunt’, says News International Former News of the World publisher agrees to disclose information to claimants including Jude Law and Paul Gascoigne reddit [...]
The family of Milly Dowling will give evidence on Monday to the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP / Rex Fea Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant and Dowlers to give evidence on Monday Actor and parents of murdered schoolgirl likely to be first of phone-hacking victims to give evidence reddit this Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 November 2011 [...]
