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 [...]
Nick Clegg said problems with corporate governance in the Murdoch empire let journalists invade privacy on an ‘industrial scale’. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features Nick Clegg: big questions over Rupert Murdoch’s fitness to run News Corp Deputy PM throws weight behind MPs’ report into phone-hacking scandal, which said Murdoch was not fit to run a big [...]
Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit’ to lead major international company, MPs conclude Select committee also says James Murdoch showed ‘wilful ignorance‘ of extent of phone hacking at News of the World Read the full select committee report Rupert Murdoch has been deemed ‘not a fit person’ to run a major international [...]
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 [...]
Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng are driven away from the High Court after his final day of giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty News Corporation has sought to undermine elected governments Rupert Murdoch is a man driven not so much by market forces as a deep desire to optimise his empire’s power [...]
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 [...]
How convincing was Rupert Murdoch? The News Corp boss had several messages he wanted to get across at the Leveson inquiry. David Leigh assesses his success Piers Morgan said Rupert Murdoch phoned him every week when he was editor of News of the World, seen above in 1995. Photograph: Terry O’Neill/Getty Images How convincing was [...]
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 [...]
Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch in the US in 1991 – they had secretly met 10 years previously before Murdoch’s successful bid for Times Newspapers. Photograph: John Mantel/Rex Features • Share206 reddit this Alan Travis, home affairs editor The Guardian, Saturday 17 March 2012 Article history Read the original documents here A secret meeting between Rupert Murdoch and Margaret [...]
It’s official! Bias exists within the Australian media and it’s endangering the ability of politicians and the public to engage in important policy debates. After an exhaustive review, the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) has released research showing news coverage of the carbon price debate [...]
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 [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd has denied any ‘improper conversation’ took place with former state senator Bill O’Chee. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Murdoch’s News Ltd denies making senator offer to vote against law change News Corporation’s Australian subsidiary says no ‘improper conversation’ took place between its executive and Bill O’Chee reddit this Mark Sweney guardian.co.uk, Wednesday [...]
James and Rupert Murdoch: trapped in a soap that can distract from the real issues. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Forget the Murdoch family drama – media power needs checking Beyond the soap opera of the News Corp succession, we must remember we got here because one group got too powerful reddit this Comments (40) Dan [...]
James Murdoch is preparing to concede that News Corporation should have acted faster over the phone hacking scandal. Photograph: Miguel Villagran/Getty James Murdoch prepares to face MPs over phone hacking News Corp boss is preparing to concede that company should have taken further action over allegations earlier reddit this Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 November 2011 [...]
James Murdoch testifying to the Commons culture, media and sport committee in July. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images Analysis: Publication of warning to NI bosses tells the story of how secret payoff evolved reddit this David Leigh guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011 19.49 GMT Article history Reporters were riveted this week by a rare publication: [...]
Elisabeth and James Murdoch at the Cheltenham festival in 2010: Vanity Fair is to claim the siblings, their brother Lachlan and half-sister Prudence discussed succession to the family media empire with a therapist. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Murdochs ‘discussed News Corp succession with family therapist’ James Murdoch was to be groomed for top job [...]
Dear friends across Australia, Murdoch is working to discredit the media inquiry that we fought hard to win. We have just two days to flood the inquiry with public comments supporting media reform, and save this historic chance to clean up our media. Send your message now and forward to [...]
Labour MP John McDonnell has challenged the government to disclose details about alleged meetings with the Murdochs to discuss the BBC licence fee freeze. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA reddit this John Plunkett guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 16.13 BST Article history John McDonnell MP calls for more details about ministerial meetings with News Corporation before licence [...]
James Murdoch‘s future is hanging in the balance after News Corp‘s shareholders lodged a massive protest vote. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA News Corp shareholders lodge protest vote against James and Lachlan Murdoch following media company’s annual meeting reddit this Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 October 2011 23.28 BST Article history James Murdoch’s future at News Corporation looks [...]
News Corp faces revolt by quarter of shareholders Rupert Murdoch with his sons Lachlan and James at a News Corp annual general meeting. Photograph: Reuters Advisory bodies and campaigners urge investors to oppose up to 13 of media firm’s 15 directors amid phone-hacking allegations reddit this Jill Treanor guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 October 2011 [...]
Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive The Wall Street Journal used a controversial scheme to boost its European circulation by allowing sponsors to buy copies in bulk from as little as 1¢. Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP Andrew Langhoff resigns as European publishing chief after exposure of secret channels of cash to [...]
Campaign grows to oust Murdoch Rupert Murdoch. Institutional Shareholder Services said the phone hacking scandal had ‘laid bare a striking lack of stewardship and failure of independence’ on the board of News Corporation Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Shareholder service advises ousting Rupert Murdoch, two sons and 10 other directors from NewsCorp board reddit this Juliette Garside [...]
Phone hacking: Shaun Russell among those suing News International The father of Josie Russell, who survived a hammer attack in which her mother and sister were killed, is one of the claimants Josie Russell with her father Shaun Russell. He is suing over phone hacking. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/EMPICS reddit this Roy Greenslade and James Robinson guardian.co.uk, [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s the Daily has 80,000 paying subscribers Rupert Murdoch launches the Daily. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images iPad newspaper attracts just a sixth of the number News Corp chief said it needs to break even reddit this Comments (66) Josh Halliday guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 October 2011 11.15 BST Article history Rupert Murdoch‘s iPad-only newspaper the [...]
Harold Evans: ‘Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator’ Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of Times Newspapers in 1981, flanked by Harold Evans and William Rees Mogg. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty In a new preface to his book, Good Times, Bad Times, the former Sunday Times editor connects the phone-hacking crisis [...]
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 [...]
Steve Coogan, whose phone was hacked by the News of the World, said News Corp‘s senior executives should be held to account. Photograph: Sam Hollenshead/Polaris Steve Coogan recalls clearly the moment he decided to sue the News of the World. “What motivated me was seeing Andy Coulson [the paper's former editor] gaining a modicum of respectability [...]
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 [...]
BDS poses a great danger for Israel. (BDS campaign graphic) By Samah Sabawi The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist. The invention of Max Brenner the Jewish chocolatier demonstrated [...]
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 [...]
James Murdoch giving evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee last month over the News of the World phone-hacking affair. Photograph: PA Evidence received by the Commons culture, media and sport committee contains “devastating revelations” about phone hacking at the News of the World, Labour MP Tom Watson said on Tuesday. Watson, the [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Alex Salmond and Rupert Murdoch during the opening of News International‘s Eurocentral printing plant in Motherwell in 2007. Labour has accused Salmond and his Scottish National party of ‘highly questionable’ meetings and gifts with Murdoch and his executives. Photograph: Danny Lawson/Press Association Alex Salmond has been accused of trying to “seduce” Rupert Murdoch and [...]
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 [...]
When news of a bomb blast and shooting first broke in Norway, media organisations the world over were quick to suggest that the people behind the attacks were Islamic terrorists. Even when the facts were hazy, security experts ‘analysed’, editorials speculated and front pages questioned why Islamic groups would want to attack Norway. [...]
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, [...]
PCC chair Peta Buscombe is expected to be the next head to roll after the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Photograph: SWNS The chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Peta Buscombe, appears about to be the next victim of the phone-hacking scandal. She is said to be preparing to make a formal announcement of her [...]
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 [...]
