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By Staff on December 14, 2011
The notorious ‘for Neville’ email circulating at the News of the World in 2008 holds the key to the future of James Murdoch at News Corporation and, very likely, at UK pay-TV operator BSKyB which is 39 per cent owned by News Corp. The email, sent to the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, bksyb, Clive Goodman, for Neville email, James Murdoch, Milly Dowler, Neville Thurlbeck, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks
By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2011
Some might say the former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor is mired in it already of course but former News of the World features executive Paul McMullan, placed much of the blame for the now-defunct Sunday tabloid’s excesses firmly on the shoulders of Piers Morgan (pictured) when he testified under oath to [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged Andy Coulson, cnn, daily mirror, itv, leveson inquiry, life stories, media ethics, news of the world, Paul McMullan, phone hacking scandal, Piers Morgan, piers morgan tonight, Rebekah Brooks
By Stephen Foster on September 13, 2011
UK chancellor George Osborne is supposed to have been the politician who persuaded then Tory leader (and now PM) David Cameron to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his director of communications (not the wisest advice George has ever proffered). Coulson was eventually forced to resign when it emerged that phone [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, George Osborne, Max Clifford, Natalie Rowe, news internatiopnal, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, tory sleaze
By Stephen Foster on September 6, 2011
News International boss James Murdoch, the man who is now at the centre of the phone hacking scandal following the arrests of Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, told a previous meeting of the Parliamentary culture, media and sport committee that he knew nothing of the notorious ‘for Neville’ email in which a junior reporter transcribed [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, Colin Myler, Gordon Taylor, James Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Neville Thurlbeck, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary culture media and sport committee, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Tom Krone, Tom Watson
By Stephen Foster on July 19, 2011
The News of the World phone hacking scandal isn’t about money is it? It’s about rights and ethics and the Murdoch family’s desire to retain control of News Corporation surely. Maybe it is but sleuths at the Financial Times have worked out that, so far, the scandal (which erupted as a global story just over [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged $1bn loss, Andy Coulson, Chase Carey, James Murdoch, John Yates, Milly Dowler, news corporation, parliamentary comittee, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupoert Murdoch, Sean Hoare, share price
By Stephen Foster on July 18, 2011
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates, the senior policeman who investigated the News of the World phone hacking scandal and declared the matter closed despite being supposedly the cleverest person at Scotland Yard, has followed his boss Sir Paul Stephenson into early retirement as the fallout from the scandal continues to spread. Stephenson’s decision to [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Boris Johnson, Cameron crisis, David Cameron, edelman, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, John Yates, london mayor, Matthew Freud, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Wade, resignations, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson
By Stephen Foster on July 17, 2011
Well it seems an extraordinary idea doesn’t it? UK PM David Cameron being forced to resign over the Murdoch newspapers phone hacking scandal. But don’t rule it out. Tonight Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson (pictured) stunned just about everybody by resigning over a cocktail of issues including his investigation of the phone hacking scandal, [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, Chase Carey, David Cameron, elizabeth murdoch, James Murdoch, Jeremy Clarkson, Neil Wallis, news corporation, News International, news of the world, parliamentary committee, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Paul Stephenson, us shareholders
By Stephen Foster on July 14, 2011
And, to be fair, political blogger Guido Fawkes (aka Paul Staines) has gone a significant stage further with his story that the Daily Mirror hacked into Ulrika Jonnson’s voicemail to reveal her affair with England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson back in 2002 (the story won the British Press Award’s ‘scoop of the year’ award in [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, british press awards, cnn talk show, Guido Fawkes, Jonathan Rees, Larry King, mail on sunday, parliamentary inquisitors, Paul Staines, phone hacking, Piers Morgan, scoop of the year, Sven-goran Eriksson, Ulrika Jonsson
By Stephen Foster on July 7, 2011
“”It’s the rich wot gets the pleasure, it’s the poor that gets the blame,” goes the old adage (or something like that) and that seems to have been the attitude of the London Metropolitan Police in its approach to arresting the alleged miscreants in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. So tomorrow, according [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, arrests, James Murdoch, Keir Starmer, met police, news of the world phone hacking scandal, Nick Davies, Rebekah Brooks, Sir Paul Stephenson, the guardian
By Stephen Foster on July 6, 2011
Which might turn out to be an even bigger scandal than hacking into people’s phones including dead servicemen’s, we read today in the Daily Telegraph. This is Rebekah Wade, as she then was, telling arch-enemy Labour MP Chris Bryant that the News of the World paid policemen for information. Her successor as NoW editor, Andy [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, Chris Bryant, Daily Telegraph, news of the world, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rebekah Wade
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