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 … close ties with David Cameron. Photo: Reuters Brooks reveals sympathy messages from PM Karen Kissane May 12, 2012 Read later Prime Minister David Cameron signed texts to Rebekah Brooks LOL, which he thought meant “lots of love”, Mrs Brooks, a former chief executive of News International, told the Leveson inquiry into the press. [...]
Biography claims David Cameron told Rebekah Brooks that she would get through her difficulties just before she stood down. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks in the week she quit as News International‘s chief executive over the phone-hacking scandal to tell her to keep her head up, it has been claimed in an updated biography [...]
James Murdoch, former chairman of News International, faces criticism over phone hacking at the News of the World in a report due out from the select committee on culture, media and sport. Photograph: Rex Features James Murdoch will be criticised by MPs investigating phone hacking on Tuesday, but their assessment of his conduct is expected to [...]
Former News International lawyer Tom Crone, who accused Rupert Murdoch of ‘shameful’ behaviour. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images Rupert Murdoch betrayed us, say former staff Former senior employees quick to challenge statements made by the media mogul at the Leveson inquiry guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 April 2012 20.55 BST Article history The Murdoch empire’s former employees have not [...]
James Murdoch has been giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the day he and Rebekah Brooks arrived at the Independent office. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Share86 Simon Kelner guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 April 2012 16.57 BST Article history As far as I recall – yes, I think that’s the phrase – it was late afternoon and I [...]
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 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 [...]
Phone hacking: police make further arrest Police from Operation Weeting investigating phone hacking at the News of the World have arrested a man at his home. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Detectives to question 35-year-old man on conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages reddit this Sandra Laville, crime correspondent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 September 2011 09.19 BST [...]
Labour’s proposals would prevent Rupert Murdoch renewing his BSkyB bid until the outcome of the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Labour is trying to secure cross-party support for an emergency change in the law to prevent News Corporation from renewing its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB. In a move designed to capitalise on the embarrassment [...]
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson became David Cameron’s aide and the Tories director of communications in May 2007. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian Andy Coulson was just a little too indiscreet, telling a handful of colleagues at Conservative campaign headquarters that he was still receiving substantial severance payments from News Internationalmonths after he joined [...]
Mainstream media often dismisses talk of conspiracy as silly – yet in the case of News of the World, a vast criminal conspiracy was shown to have existed [EPA] In the last month, we have seen one engrossing news event follow another in quick succession. On July 5th, The Guardian revealed that the News of the World had [...]
A life unravelled … whistleblower who incurred wrath of the Murdoch empire Relentless legal pursuit of ex-News Corp employee likened to ‘Rambo tactics’ Robert Emmel worked for News Corporation and later notified authorities about illegal business practices. Photograph: Timothy Fadek/Polaris Five years ago Robert Emmel was enjoying the American dream. He lived in a detached [...]
The News of the World‘s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims phone hacking was widely discussed at the paper. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images The News of the World’s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims [...]
Simon Hughes: hoping to ‘get to the bottom of what happened during this dark period in British journalism’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, is to sue News Internationalover phone hacking at the News of the World, he confirmed on Thursday. Hughes told the Evening Standard: “It is important now that all [...]
2:32PM BST 10 Aug 2011 Scotland Yard said the 61-year-old remained in custody after visiting a London police station by appointment at midday. Miskiw left Britain for the US after being alleged to have repeatedly authorised illegal voicemail hacking. Last month he told The Daily Telegraph outside his home in Florida that his solicitors had [...]
“Hold on, aren’t you Andy Coulson? I’m not sure you’re an appropriate choice for this role.” Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Inappropriate payments Bribes. Bribes, bribes, bribes. An inappropriate payment would be if your aunt wrote you a cheque but made it out to “Fitty McHotpants”. If you give a police officer money for confidential information, that’s [...]
Elisabeth Murdoch will not join the board of News Corp after suggesting the move would be ‘inappropriate’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Elisabeth Murdoch will not be joining the board of her father Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation conglomerate, despite expectations that she would do so. The company said in a statement that she had suggested [...]
Stuart Kuttner (left) with Sara and Michael Payne during the Sarah’s Law campaign. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police officers to leak sensitive information. [...]
The London-based journalist Richard Gizbert, host of the Al Jazeera program The Listening Post, chronicles how the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal has shaken the British government, media system and public. A must-watch interview on how the scandal has unfolded and what it means for people in the United States. AMY GOODMAN: Our guest is Richard Gizbert. He is [...]
Rebekah Brooks, then the News of the World editor, with Sara Payne, mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne at a meeting to discuss Sarah’s law in 2002. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA . 5.25pm: Welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the latest twist in the News of the World phone-hacking saga. As you may have [...]
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting in 2000. The mobile phone details of her mother, Sara, have been found in Glenn Mulcaire‘s notes. Photograph: PA Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted [...]
George Osborne has attended 16 meetings since the 2010 general election at which News International executives were present. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA George Osborne met Rebekah Brooks on five occasions in the year following the 2010 general election, according to figures released on Tuesday afternoon, that show how the chancellor cultivated relationships with senior figures at News [...]
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 25, 2011 JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to [...]
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
The Wall Street Journal could have done a better job in its Rupert Murdoch interview, its editorial committee has said. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features The Wall Street Journal “could have done a better job” when it published an interview with proprietor Rupert Murdoch in which he said News Corporation had made only “minor mistakes” in managing the phone-hacking [...]
Vince Cable also told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that big questions remained over the Murdoch empire’s suitability to run a UK broadcaster. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA No other media company should ever have the same influence in the UK as Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation, the Vince Cable has said. “There are other big media companies which could have [...]
Rupert Murdoch was accused by the Acpo president, Sir Hugh Orde, of ‘complete denial of any responsibility of his organisation’. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers,has lambasted Rupert Murdoch, saying the chairman of News Corporation had shown a complete denial of responsibility for what had gone on in his [...]
Is it the end of empire for old style media mogul Rupert Murdoch because of his cosy relationship with politicians and the police? What started as a tabloid scandal over phone hacking in the UK is now infecting his newspapers, TV stations and other interests worldwide. The costs are already enormous. Apart from the billions [...]
News International threatened to persecute the Liberal Democrats if Vince Cable did not advance its case, according to high-level sources. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Rupert Murdoch‘s News International launched a campaign of bullying against senior Liberal Democrats in an attempt to force through the company’s bid for BSkyB, high-level sources have told the Observer. Lib Dem insiders say NI [...]
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual 21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp scandal is sending shock waves across the UK, as protesters reject the mogul’s denial of reponsibility for criminal behaviour within his empire [GALLO/GETTY] Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal. But while News Corp [...]
James Murdoch said he answered questions from the Commons culture committee ‘truthfully’. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News Internationalexecutives accused him of misleading parliament. As David Cameron suggested that News Corp shareholders may like to review the [...]
Former No 10 communications boss Andy Coulson was a witness in a 2010 trial involving Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AP Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s former director of communications, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street. The development renews pressure on the prime [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest, now joining us from the newsroom of The Guardian, is the reporter who has broken the media Murdoch—the Murdoch media scandal wide open. He is Nick Davies, award-winning investigative journalist at The Guardian in London. Nick Davies, welcome to Democracy Now! Well, did you ever think that the—though you’ve been covering this for quite some [...]
‘Israel-firsters’: Murdoch and Other Villains By Stuart Littlewood Having disposed of the Murdoch menace – for the moment anyway – it’s time for the British public to turn the spotlight on the other villains our craven politicians pay homage to. Public enemy Number One is the pro-Israel lobby. An organization called the Conservative Friends of [...]
Rebekah Brooks‘s husband, Charlie, had his computer and iPad confiscated by police investigating the phone-hacking scandal after they were found in a carpark. Photograph: Rex Features Detectives are checking the contents of the two computers found in a carpark near the riverside home of Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive who resigned over phone [...]
James Murdoch told MPs he agreed to agreed to the Gordon Taylor payout in ignorance of the true facts. Photograph: Reuters Tom Crone and Colin Myler were well aware that the statement they were about to make could prove fatal to James Murdoch. When the Guardian pointed out in the wake of his parliamentary testimony that Murdoch’s [...]
If you missed any of the display at the hearing by Murdoch and Son, don’t fret you did not miss anything of any substance whatsoever. The calculated and planned style adopted by the now seemingly humble, aging and contrite father was juxtaposed with the incoherent corporate ramblings of the ‘heir apparent’ son along with [...]
The 12 Nastiest Villains in the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Here’s an incomplete guide to the villains in the drama that threatens to take down the Murdoch empire. July 18, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. TAKE ACTION Change.org|Get [...]
James and Rupert Murdoch at the parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking. Photograph: Reuters TV/Reuters In 2004, I created Outfoxed to expose Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism. Focusing on Fox News, we examined how NewsCorp has long blurred the line between corporate interests and journalistic integrity. The film presented an in-depth look at the dangers of [...]
David Cameron, Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks. The Guardian has posed 10 questions to Downing Street over the phone-hacking scandal. Photograph: PA 1. Did civil servants at any point express concerns or offer advice on the suitability of Andy Coulson to be the prime minister’s director of communications? 2. Did civil servants express any [...]
Lord Macdonald was in charge of the CPS when the phone-hacking prosecution of the NoW’s royal correspondent took place. Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA “Blindingly obvious” evidence of corrupt payments to police officers was found by the former director of public prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, when he inspected News of the World emails, the home affairs select committee was told. [...]
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has confirmed that a preliminary investigation is under way into News Corporation’s activities. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the [...]
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre said he received reports that News International executives had encouraged celebrities to investigate whether their phones had been hacked by Mail newspapers. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, told senior managers he had received reports from PR agencies, footballers and others that News International executives had [...]
Charlie and Rebekah Brooks. Photograph: Tom Jenkins Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International. The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design [...]
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper wing, will face questioning by British parliamentarians on Tuesday following her release on bail on suspicion of bribing police and illegally intercepting voicemail messages. The phone-hacking scandal surrounding Murdoch’s media empire has forced several of his top officials to resign, as well as two of Britain’s top [...]
